[TIP] tests speed

[Benji York]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:40 PM, andrea crotti
<andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to make sure that all my tests run as fast as possible, and
> they actually do:
>
> Ran 44 tests in 0.011s
>
> But the problem is that the actual time they take to run is much different:
>
> OK
>
> real    0m12.105s
> user    0m11.873s
> sys     0m0.170s
>
>
> where are these 12 seconds being lost then? (using nose)

strace -tt can be very illuminating in these situations.  As mentioned
by Marius, I suspect startup of one flavor or another is the dominating
time sink.
-- 
Benji York