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in reply to Testaholics Anonymous (or how I learned to stop worrying and love Test::More)

It's not to much.

Look at gcc and glibc, those take as much time to test then to build them.

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Re: Re: Testaholics Anonymous (or how I learned to stop worrying and love Test::More)
by thelenm (Vicar) on Mar 31, 2004 at 23:52 UTC

    Or perl itself for that matter. On my machine it takes only a few minutes to build the Perl interpreter, but at least 20 minutes to run the tests.

    -- Mike

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    XML::Simpler does not require XML::Parser or a SAX parser. It does require File::Slurp.
    -- grantm, perldoc XML::Simpler

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      It once took me two days to run configure for Perl, 10 minutes to compile, and another day for the tests. :-)

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