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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 4"""
+ date="2022-03-08T18:16:40Z"
+ content="""
+One thing I notice is that the test suite reports
+it took 44 minutes (2670 seconds), but time reports
+49 minutes. Those additional 5 minutes must be the test
+suite cleaning up the test directories. Which fits with NFS.
+That is 5 minutes to effectively `rm -rf` maybe 20k directories/files.
+
+Also, you originally said it took more than 1 hour (or perhaps more
+than 5000 seconds, which would be 1.4 hours). So it seems that my fix did 
+have a significant impact on speed. 
+
+What I see benchmarking locally is that the standalone tarball takes 1016 
+seconds (down from 3600+), while a bare git-annex binary takes 614 seconds.
+That is probably due to the small overhead (100 failed opens) discussed in
+[[this_old_todo|todo/may_be___40__again__41___to_prelink_or_somehow_avoid_all_the_failing_opens__63__]],
+multiplied by the thousands of times the test suite runs git-annex.
+
+Parallelizing the test suite seems like the only way to get a substantial
+speedup.
+"""]]