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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:58:55 -0400, Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think most people use the -t option to bin/test to find tests to
> run.  This finds all possible tests, and then filters.  If you are
> only running some relatively svelte little tests without layer set up,
> this can be very noticeable.
>
> You might like -m and -p.  -m runs the tests in a module.  -p runs the
> tests in a package.  For me on Launchpad, -t is about 3 times slower
> than -m or -p.

What's the difference between passing -m or -p and not passing any
option at all?  The following all run the same number of tests at the
same speed afaict:

./bin/test -p lp.codehosting.vfs.tests -u
./bin/test -m lp.codehosting.vfs.tests -u
./bin/test lp.codehosting.vfs.tests -u

Also, I don't understand the difference between -m and -p, given that
you pass a package to -m... oh, it seems that -m takes a regexp whereas
-p takes a package path.  That suggests that -p ought to be fractionally
faster, but it really doesn't seem to make any difference to me.

In any case, yeah, don't use -t if you can get away without it!

Cheers,
mwh