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    [project @ 2006-01-18 16:31:10 by simonmar] · ff6b4956
    Simon Marlow authored
    Add a fast version of the testsuite
    
    The idea is to have a way to run as much of the testsuite as possible
    in a short time, so that we'll run it more often (such as just before
    checking in a change, for example).  'make fast' tries for good
    coverage without using too many cycles.  Currently it takes about 4
    minutes on a fast machine with an optimised GHC build; I think this
    might still be a little on the slow side.
    
    When you say 'make fast' in testsuite/tests/ghc-regress, we run each
    test only one way, and all of the long-running tests are omitted.
    Also, to get the runtime down further, I arbitrarily omitted many of
    the should_run tests (because these tend to take a lot longer than
    should_compile or should_fail tests).  I tried to keep a
    representative few in each category.
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