[TIP] tests speed

[Chris Jerdonek]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:40 AM, 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

Here is where unittest's default TextTestRunner measures the time
(which is after test discovery/loading/etc):

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/659ef9d360ae/Lib/unittest/runner.py#l163

I don't know whether nose uses a custom test runner that measures
things differently.

--Chris


>
> 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)
>
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