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[Nicholas Nethercote]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Simon Marlow wrote:

> > I think you should shoot for more like 60 seconds.  A test that
> > runs for 10 seconds today will be back in the nearly-useless
> > category (~1 second) within 2-3 years, at current progress rates
> > for hardware.
>
> I think 60 seconds would be a bit on the long side - when running tests
> interactively rather than in the background having tests that run that
> long would be too painful.  10 or maybe 20 seconds would be better IMO.

Could there be maybe 3 possibilities - short, medium and long, of maybe 5,
20 and 60 seconds, for example?  And choose it via the Makefile, or
something?  I don't think one can say "this is the optimal time" - it
depends on what you're doing...
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Nick Nethercote
njn25@cam.ac.uk