Comment by xwowsersx

Oh ya know, I never did consider PyPy. Is it significantly faster than standard CPython? I'm going to look into trying it out. Would be amazing if we could easily get performance improvements with it.

Also, your idea about having a smaller set of quick running tests and then separate smoke tests is actually a great idea. What we've really done in many of the cases where we should have a unit tests, is essentially to write integration tests. Not quite end to end but pretty close and that's where a lot of the slowness comes from.

Appreciate the reply!