http://www.logilab.org/ticket/22701 http://www.logilab.org/ticket/22701 http://www.logilab.org/ticket/22701 <p>When disabling some message categories, we get no performance improvement:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> $ time pylint 1&gt; /dev/null pylint/ No config file found, using default configuration real 0m10.443s user 0m9.861s sys 0m0.320s $ time pylint --disable-msg-cat=R,C,W,E pylint/ real 0m10.547s user 0m10.013s sys 0m0.280s </pre> <p>However, the suggested 'quick run' (checking only for errors and important warnings) should be faster than the regular run.</p> <p>Would it be a solution to have all checkers store informations about which visit_&lt;node&gt; method triggers possibly which message?</p> 2011-03-10T11:11-01:00 Emile Anclin