Re: [boost] [testing] Need optimization help!!!

Subject: Re: [boost] [testing] Need optimization help!!!
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-02-01 12:14:50

On 1/31/17 7:22 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:
> If someone is interested in an optimization challenge here's your
> opportunity. Currently the program(s) that generate the test results take a
> long time to run. In both the live setup of a 4 core 16 GB ram VM it takes
> about 40 minutes to generate the reports for master and develop branches.
> On my 4 core 16 GB ram real hardware SSD HD machine it also takes about 40
> minutes.

Assuming that the 40 min includes building all libraries and tests and 
running the tests, that doesn't seem to be all that long as far as I'm 
concerned.

Here at home I use b2 and library_status to incrementally and run build 
tests for one library.  (usually but not always the serialization 
library, naturally).  It takes couple of minutes for a complete build on 
my more or less modern desktop - Mac mini with 256GB SSD and 4 cores.  I 
don't think that's a major problem.  When I'm working on fixing 
problems, most of the build/test cycles are incremental so in practice 
it's not problem at all.  FWIW I use XCode project generated from CMake 
for debugging and b2 to check with gcc compilers before I checkin. Both 
seem to take a similar amount of time.

Robert Ramey