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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 08 February 2011 02:39:02 Robert Collins wrote:
> Mid end desktops these days are 8 way machines that should be able to
> easily do a full test run in < 60 minutes.

Good luck with that.  I've parallelised test runs using virtualisation before 
and you get so much I/O contention that the overall increase in speed is only 
about 10%.

(Using two simultaneous runs on my quad-core Phenom)

J