Tim Abbott 39501e5a78 Make the Django-based test suite much faster. ...

So, I got annoyed that our test suite was taking forever to run:

real	2m13.443s
user	1m32.630s
sys	0m3.748s

Some quick profiling determined that the test suite is spending all of
its time loading the fixtures files (zephyr/fixtures/messages.json)
that it loads for each test case (3s to load that for each test case).
To improve this situation, I cut out from the test database used by
the test suite most of the users, subscriptions, etc. that aren't
being used directly by the test cases.  The impact is a quite
significant speedup:

real	0m15.176s
user	0m9.161s
sys	0m0.508s

We're still spending over a quarter of a second per test, which isn't
great -- but this is at least no longer unbearable.

This commit doesn't make any changes to the populate_db output if you
don't pass the new --test-suite option.

(imported from commit 2334ba5399b33edab3d29ff269fde4ea77ccd48e)

2013-01-08 17:23:55 -05:00

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