[CMake] CTest and CPU core utilization

[Sean McBride]

On 7/10/09 2:07 PM, Bill Hoffman said:

>>> There is a beta ctest -j N functionality in CVS.
>> 
>> Great!  Does 'N' instruct it to run 'N' tests in parallel?
>> 
>Yes.

Any plans to go even further?  It's hard to choose 'N'.  Some test may
create many threads and some may create none.  Perhaps a way for tests
to report to ctest how many cores they need.  Then ctest would have more
info to decide how many/which tests to run at the same time.

>>> If the tests depend on each other, you have to add some 
>>> extra test properties to let ctest know about that.
>> 
>> Do you know if CMake itself, VTK, and ITK have these extra properties?
>> 
>CMake does, VTK and ITK do not yet...

Thanks,

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