Original issue 70 created by sfiera on 2011-10-04T03:32:16.000Z:

The Antares test suite is quite large and takes a long time to run. Part of that is that it does not parallelize tests at all, so on a multi-core machine, only half of their processing power is being used. Turning the test invocations into real waf tasks should allow it to do its standard parallelization thing, and run tasks concurrently up to the number of cores on the machine.

Side note: it's quite possible that I/O bandwidth accounts for a significant amount of the slowness, in which case parallelization isn't likely to yield great speed improvements.