selftest.backtick versus selftest.run_bzr

[Martin Pool]

On 18/09/05, David Clymer <david at zettazebra.com> wrote:
> > Yes and no. There was a discussion recently that it is easier to debug
> > test failures if it does not actually spawn a new command. (Because you
> > can get nice stack traces, etc).
> >
> > Also, there is quite a bit of overhead of spawning a new instance.
> > Loading all of the python code is not free. On my Mac, "time bzr root"
> > takes 0.6 seconds. 

OK, I've gone ahead and converted all the tests that used to run bzr
externally so that they just call things in-process.  This cuts the
test suite time from about 20s cpu to about 3s on my Linux laptop; the
reduction is probably even larger on windows.

-- 
Martin