add a fast_test rake task which runs in 2 seconds!
add a fast_test rake task which runs in 2 seconds!

I wonder why 1.9 is so much slower ...

    integ spec
18: 0.34  0.60
19: 0.15  0.42

rake test:
18: 2.79s user 0.38s system 99% cpu 3.191 total
19: 5.98s user 0.54s system 98% cpu 6.589 total
without unit_test:
18: 2.55s user 0.34s system 98% cpu 2.926 total
19: 5.12s user 0.46s system 99% cpu 5.616 total
rake fast_test:
18: 1.46s user 0.12s system 96% cpu 1.642 total
19: 1.74s user 0.14s system 98% cpu 1.895 total
ruby fast_test.rb (same as the rake task, but not loading rake tasks)
18: 1.05s user 0.09s system 97% cpu 1.176 total
19: 1.40s user 0.15s system 93% cpu 1.663 total

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