Re: [RFA] Add more parallelization to gdb.base testing

[dje@google.com (Doug Evans)]

I wrote:
> This patch speeds up gdb testing at -j6 on my machine from 7mins to 4mins.
> I didn't want to get too carried away here, this felt like a good compromise.
> I split the range into four roughly equal partitions alphabet wise,
> then noticed that [a-g] has far more files than the others so made the split
> more refined.  I'm happy to use whatever partitioning folks want, I just
> want the 4mins (or better).
> 
> Ok to check in?
> 
> btw, it's possible to do better.
> The ideal is (effectively) to be able to run all the .exp's at once.
> But that's a more work and this is trivial with a reasonable win.

Blech.  Bad cut-n-paste.  Here is the correct ChangeLog entry.

2012-06-15  Doug Evans  <dje@google.com>

	* Makefile.in (TEST_DIRS): Add gdb.base3, gdb.base4.
	(BASE1_FILES, BASE2_FILES): Change to handle a-d and e-k respectively.
	(BASE3_FILES, BASE4_FILES): New, handles l-r and s-z respectively.