Re: [boost] How to make tests building faster?

Subject: Re: [boost] How to make tests building faster?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-12-20 13:23:22

AMDG

On 12/20/2011 08:23 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
> 
> on Tue Dec 20 2011, Mateusz Łoskot <mateusz-AT-loskot.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out if there is anything I could do to improve
>> compile/link-time for tests of Boost.Geometry library.
>> Currently, the tests follow fairly canonical approach in Boost:
>>
>> 1) Each .cpp file defines a single test program and all local test
>>     routines are executed from test_main()
> 
> That's your problem right there.  The canonical organization is
> unfriendly to fast test times and I would not use it for my next
> library.  It's better to put more tests together in the same executable,
> and more in the same translation unit.
> 

That works as long as you don't have a lot
of compile-fail tests, which must be in
separate translation units.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe