Re: Parrllel Testing

[Tom Browder]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Ben Elliston
<address@hidden> wrote:
> > OK, Ben, for this layman and the bottom line: will doing make -jN+
>  > for a N-processor host give a theoretical 1/O(N) speed-up for the
>  > test cycle for --enable-languages=all?
>
>  Sadly, no.  The testsuites for the different languages are a different
>  size.  To save you the suspense, the C testsuite dominates the whole
>  show, but you can finish the other testsuites while you wait.  :-)

Well, patient Ben, is there a solution?  Is it with DejaGnu or some
scripting magic? Or change the testing program?

Thanks,

-Tom