The suite keeps one NUnit worker per logical CPU busy with allocation-heavy
decompiles (223 GB allocated per run), so under workstation GC every
gen0/gen1 collection any worker triggers suspends the whole process.
Measured on a 24-thread Windows box (Debug, ILSpy-tests checked out):
27,229 gen0 / 6,919 gen1 collections and 305 s of total GC pause in a
553 s run, at 45% average CPU. With server GC the same run takes 310 s,
1,251 gen0 / 492 gen1, 14 s of pause, 80% CPU, for the same ~46 min of
processor time; the in-suite roundtrip decompiles drop 2-3x
(Random_TestCase_1 353 s -> 133 s, ExplicitConversions 319 s -> 136 s,
NRefactory_CSharp 337 s -> 156 s). Standalone ilspycmd timings are
unaffected, which is what pointed at contention inside the test process
rather than decompiler cost.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Christoph Wille