[libvirt] [PATCH 0/3] Speed up schema testing

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 05:15:55PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> Currently, we spawn a new xmllint process for every tested XML file.
> Fortunately, xmllint accepts multiple files on its command line.
> 
> Use xargs on XML files we expect to be valid and only fall back
> to file-by-file check if that fails (or if VIR_TEST_EXPENSIVE was requested).
> 
> This speeds up successfully passing domainschematest 32x (from ~13s to ~0.5s)
> and make check over 2x (over 16s to ~8s), making it even more fun to use with
> git rebase -x.

How about killing the horrible use of shell script and instead just
calling virXMLValidateAgainstSchema() from a regular C unit test.
That ought to reduce overhead even more and for added benefit
eliminate awful shell script code.

Regards,
Daniel
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