Re: Autotest function usage

[Paolo Bonzini]

> > For both patches, test time improves by ~5% for testsuite -10, and slows 
> > down slightly for running only one test.
>
> I like the second approach better, as the first is formally not a
> complexity reduction.  I'm a bit disappointed that the improvement is
> not larger, though.  Oh well.

I expect it to be bigger for an entire run, the same way as -10 improves
more than -1.  Also, the autoconf testsuite is peculiar in that the
tests take a lot of time to run, making the sed overhead less visible.

> Could we name the tests after their normalized number, i.e., 017, so
> that `ls' file ordering is sane?  I suppose it would be good to test
> the final patch with Solaris and AIX awk (I can do so).

Would you mind doing also the former?

> Should the individual test source files be deleted at the end, or even
> after each one is completed?  Only if -d is not given?

Probably.

> If you want to get crazy, you can let awk exit after extracting the last
> needed test.

No thanks. ;-)

Paolo