Parallel static python checks with Makefiles

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\ To make testing fun I looked at improving the speed of static syntax checks.\ The latest incarnation is now using make targets to represent a specific checks. The nice thing about this is, that you can use Make’s -j switch to run those tests in parallel.\ \ So basically it looks like this:\ \

check-static-pep8: $(PYTHONSOURCES:%=%.pep8)
 @echo Passed $@

%.pep8:
 PYTHONPATH=. pep8 -r "$*"

\ The complete makefile is here and the numbers:\ \ Simple:\

...
---
 Passed check-local
---

real 0m22.875s
user 0m20.466s
sys 0m2.158s

\ \ And in parallel:\

---
 Passed check-local
---

real 0m11.459s
user 0m34.780s
sys 0m3.325s

\ There is so much that can be done.

::: {#footer} [ May 2nd, 2013 8:33pm ]{#timestamp} [make]{.tag} [testing]{.tag} [python]{.tag} [fedora]{.tag} :::