[Insight-developers] TestDriver Test

[William A. Hoffman]

I would not say that.   .NET is quite a bit faster at loading projects, but 
I would think that most people
are not seeing 15 second load times.  I just did a quick test with Visual 
Studio 6, and the load time
was 40 seconds the old way, and 25 seconds the new way.   This is also a 
rather new machine, on
last years PC's load times can be over 1 minute.  So an almost 50% faster 
load time,  is pretty good,
and that was only one of the directories.  There are still 160 projects in 
the workspace, if we did all of them,
I would expect to see greater speed improvements.

Also, the disk space is quite a good improvement as well, it is 3.5 times 
less disk space.
I have not done the timings, but I would think that if the compiler is 
writing out 3.5 times less data, it
should run faster.    For perception of ITK, I think anything we can do to 
make it more manageable
is a good idea.  I don't think turning off the tests by default is the 
answer.


-Bill

At 06:07 PM 3/1/2002 -0500, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>So it looks like little improvement except for disk space,
>
>Bill
>
>At 05:14 PM 3/1/02 -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> >Hi Folks-
> >
> >Just to see if the testing process we discussed on the TCON was
> >worth doing at all, I went ahead and converted
> >just the tests in BasicFilters to my approach.  Here are the results
> >for this one directory:
> >
> >The project load time in .NET went from 15 sec. to 8 sec. (1.2 ghz 
> processor).
> >The number of projects went from 240 to 160.
> >The binary directory went from 240 megs to 70 megs.
> >The TestDriver executable was only 2.8 megs.
> >Changing a test and re-linking/compiling showed no noticeable difference 
> in time.
> >