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by quesera 1614 days ago
> Most projects' tests, even when they're poorly written, still run in 3 or 4 minutes. My own tests run on the order of single-digit seconds.

That is an absurd statement to make without context.

I work on a large project with a few thousand very well-written tests, which run in 24 minutes serially on a recent-era laptop, or under a minute in well-parallelized CI environment.