Re: A potential approach to making tests faster on Windows

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Mar 30 2018, Johannes Schindelin wrote [expressing frustrations
about Windows test suite slowness]:

I've wondered for a while whether it wouldn't be a viable approach to
make something like an interpreter for our test suite to get around this
problem, i.e. much of it's very repetitive and just using a few shell
functions we've defined, what if we had C equivalents of those?
...

I don't have time or interest to work on this now, but thought it was
interesting to share. This assumes that something in shellscript like:

    while echo foo; do echo bar; done

Is no slower on Windows than *nix, since it's purely using built-ins, as
opposed to something that would shell out.

That's interesting; it certainly is appreciated to be constructive
to find a usable solution.