Floris Bruynooghe <flub@devork.be> writes:

> On Sun 09 Jan 2022 at 09:26 -0400, David Bremner wrote:
>> One thing I would like to think
>> about is the length of time it takes to run the pytests. It is not
>> currently the bottleneck in running the parallel tests for me, but it is
>> among the slower T*.sh. So it might be nice at some point to split into
>> several invocations for pytest, assuming multiple invocations of pytest
>> can run in parallel.
>
> There is the pytest-xdist plugin which is widely used and probably will
> work fine on the notmuch testsuite (I even contributed to the plugin at
> some point).  It will split the workload between however many processes
> you choose, running them in parallel.

It sounds like it has potential, but I'm not sure how it would interact
with the existing scheme controlled by make. I suspect we'd end up with
too many processes/threads in total.

d


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