Serious Problems with the Test Suite

[Avrina]

On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 at 23:59:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 11. Every time we run into "oh, that's just a heisenbug, try 
> re-running the test" that is a BUG in the test suite and needs 
> to be fixed. Those are gigantic time and resource wasting 
> problems.

I've run into these problems with, for example, optlink. When 
trying to get optlink removed, you prevent it. These heisenbugs 
exist because, a lot of the time, you aren't willing to chop off 
dead weight.