This job teaches you that every operating system has skeletons in its closet. Linux? It plays it straight—open source, they call it. But Windows? Windows is that mysterious beauty in the corner of the bar. Smiling, telling you everything's fine, while bodies rot in her basement.

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A deep investigation into why Nette Tester's parallel test execution performs dramatically worse on Windows (21.6 seconds) compared to Linux (3 seconds). The root cause is Windows' lack of non-blocking I/O support for anonymous pipes, causing the test runner to freeze when reading from empty pipes. Multiple solutions were attempted—stream_set_blocking(), stream_select(), file-based output, and delayed reading—but each introduced new problems like deadlocks when test output exceeded the 4KB pipe buffer. The only viable solution would require rewriting the entire system to use TCP sockets instead of pipes.

The Case of the Blocked Pipe