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Re: QMTest and the G++ testsuite
> That's definitely an interesting feature, and one that I've wanted in
> DejaGNU for a while, until I realized that parallel testing didn't
> improve time at all on my uni-processor Athlon box. But in the cases
> where it would actually make a difference in multi-processor machines,
> e.g. when testing a toolchain with dozens of multilibs, I can already
> test in parallel with a Makefile hack introduced a while ago.
Concretely, using QMTest to test g++ on a two-processor x86 box testing
the i686-pc-linux-gnu toolchain (no multilibs), I can run
"make qmtest-g++" in less than half the time than with "make check-g++".
Sure, if you're building a full toolchain, you can use "make -j". But
that's not the only scenario.
I'm asking for a baby step: that we permit people to use QMTest to do
their testing, rather than requiring DejaGNU.
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