Profiling parallel tests

[Nicholas Clark]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:16:52PM +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> On 21 Aug 2008, at 22:57, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > The results of that call to get_all() aren't used. It seems that it  
> > could be
> > replaced by a get_any(), (Well, not_finished()) method, that  
> > returned true
> > as long as there were any tests still to run, which I assume is a  
> > test that
> > can be short-circuited.
> 
> 
> Correct. But I think it's worth clearing out the structures that  
> relate to tests that have completed too - otherwise get_any() still  
> has a lot of corpses to step over.

There seems to already be some pruning in _find_next_job():

        # Prune any exhausted items.
        shift @$seq while @$seq && _is_empty( $seq->[0] );

That's doing something different from what you're suggesting?

Nicholas Clark