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

[Vincent Snijders]

Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
> 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.
> 

It doesn't create database connection at all :-)

Vincent.