There are quite a few problems with pypy and test suites. This sounds like it's an extreme case, but sqlite is definitely very slow. How about you post this on

There are quite a few problems with pypy and test suites. This sounds like it's an extreme case, but sqlite is definitely very slow. How about you post this on a bugtracker, so we have a point of reference to start with? For the record, I don't believe "this is how things with the JIT are" to start with. 17 minutes is by far enough to spin the JIT. It might be sqlite, it might be some code in sqlalchemy, it might be something unbeliavably silly, please start with a bug report and we can take it from there. SQLAlchemy is an important package and would be cool to have it run fast on PyPy.