[fpc-devel] Definition of the time-fration in a TDateTime before 30/12/1899

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 12:27 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 5/23/06, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> > > On the other hand, it would speed up things quite a bit.
> >
> > Correct.
> > I'm not against changing to fpcunit, but it will require again a lot of
> > work...
> 
> Yes much faster!  I just finished a case in point on our code.  One of
> our developers (new to unit testing) used the Setup and TearDown
> methods in a TestSuite to setup a db connection, do a test and close
> the connection. Over and over and over.  The 27 tests took over
> 30seconds to execute.
> 
> I relocated the db connection code to a test decorator (part of
> fpcUnit and took 15 lines of code to implement) and now it creates a
> single connection for the lifetime of all tests in that TestSuite.
> Time to run those 27 test are now 1.9 seconds!
> 
> I can't see how something like this is possible with the way the fpc
> team does testing.

Well.... fcl/dbtests ...

They are still slow, though. Since the data must get be clear between
every test. But there's still a lot to improve..

Joost.