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Added parallel test running to "Speeding up the tests" docs.

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Harry Moreno 2016-06-30 18:10:03 -04:00 committed by Tim Graham
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Speeding up the tests
---------------------
In recent versions of Django, the default password hasher is rather slow by
design. If during your tests you are authenticating many users, you may want
to use a custom settings file and set the :setting:`PASSWORD_HASHERS` setting
to a faster hashing algorithm::
Running tests in parallel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As long as your tests are properly isolated, you can run them in parallel to
gain a speed up on multi-core hardware. See :option:`test --parallel`.
Password hashing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The default password hasher is rather slow by design. If you're authenticating
many users in your tests, you may want to use a custom settings file and set
the :setting:`PASSWORD_HASHERS` setting to a faster hashing algorithm::
PASSWORD_HASHERS = [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.MD5PasswordHasher',