Subject: bug#24503: unstable test results (on hydra)

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:06:46 -0500

> I've failed to reproduce this issue myself in 1000+ trials. So maybe
> it is some hydra-specific weirdness, though I can't see how.
> If all else fails, the test can just be skipped there.

It could be due to a parallel-make issue where sometimes we load a .el
file and sometimes we load a .elc file depending on the relative order
of execution of the various parallel commands.

        Stefan "who still haven't looked at the actual code, so is just
                talking about very general ideas"