[m-rev.] for review: improve test framework

[Zoltan Somogyi]

On 15-Aug-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Not running in parallel has two disavantages:
> 
> 	- It runs slower.
> 
> 	  This is unfortunate but probably tolerable since
> 	  we don't have very many multi-CPU machines anyway.

This should not be a problem. If ever buy any multiprocessors, it should be
simple to modify bootcheck and/or test_mercury to run the tests in different
directories in parallel, concatentaing their output files after both finished.

> 	- It doesn't test parallel mmake.
> 
> 	  That would be a serious omission in our test coverage, IMHO.

I agree, but it is also one that could be plugged by adding a new test
directory specifically for the purpose.

Zoltan.
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