t-forward-control on slow machines

[Darren Tucker]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Christian Weisgerber
<naddy at mips.inka.de> wrote:
> On how slow a machine do we want the regression tests, specifically
> forward-control.sh, to still work?

TL;DR all of them.

Where possible we try to write the tests to work on any machine
capable of running the software, eg by not coding a timeout..   Where
that's not possible, increasing timeouts to be able to run the tests
to run on any extant platform is entirely reasonable.

The slowest thing I've personally tried recently is a 170MHz
TurboSPARC, and that woked last time I tried,.

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