The test cases contain annotations with the following: check-<tagname>[: <value>] These are extracted with grep & sed but this is done separately for each tags which means that we need fork+exec two processes for each possible tags. Change this by trying to get all the tag+value in once by storing the result in a variables instead of doing the grep & sed thing at each time we need to check the tag. This speedup the testsuite by around 30% for me. Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>