Bug#699083: lintian: optimize t/tests suite

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2013-01-27 11:17, Niels Thykier wrote:
> [...]

Since converting Lintian to use autodie, it has taken quite a bit of
overhead at start up.  I haven't done timings the current state of the
test suite.  However, I worked a bit with upstream on reducing the overhead.

I used sentinella as a simple reference for some quick benchmarks, which
gave:

2.5.12 (tag):             0m2.304s/0m1.820s/0m0.376s
master (autodie << 2.18): 0m4.535s/0m4.112s/0m1.020s
master (autodie >= 2.18): 0m3.632s/0m3.188s/0m0.720s

So autodie >= 2.18 improves the situation quite a bit, but it is still a
regression from 2.5.12.

~Niels