Improve test speed about aegir HOT 7 CLOSED

Some more stats

• gulp a 1.51s user 0.15s system 106% cpu 1.560 total where a is a task that is directly defined in a local gulpfile to use gulp-spawn-mocha as aegir-test does.
• gulp test:node 2.78s user 0.58s system 83% cpu 3.996 total with a direct gulpfile in the project directory

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First batch of changes was made, to reduce the overhead of using gulp to a minimum. Remaining tasks are

• Find a convenient alternative to npm run, it is just too slow for everyday use, probably a small aegir-cli module that can be globally installed and invoke the local installation.
• Add pre and post hooks for the tests, without needing to load gulp manually. They should just be part of .aegir.js

from aegir.

no more gulp, should be a good deal faster now

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./node_modules/.bin/aegir test -t node  9.69s user 0.72s system 114% cpu 9.090 total
./node_modules/.bin/mocha  6.57s user 0.60s system 116% cpu 6.161 total

Seems like aegir still has a bit of overhead when it comes to starting and stopping compared to just running mocha directly.

from aegir.

Hmm... that might be due to stuff happening in the .aegir file for the specific project, assuming nothing's there, then the overhead is pretty big.

from aegir.

On my machine, the overhead is pretty much AEgir itself:

$ time node aegir/cli.js 2> /tmp/null
node aegir/cli.js 2> /tmp/null  2.19s user 0.11s system 107% cpu 2.145 total

from aegir.

Managed to remove a lot of the overhead over here by just inlining the requires: #223

node aegir/cli.js went from taking one second to about 0.2 seconds for me with these changes.

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