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[General: Slow Testing Exercises] Exercises that have Slow Running Tests that Time Out in the UI

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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
testing-qa

Research direction

Review the exercise configuration for Palindrome Products and Pythagorean Triplet, and check how exercises are marked as slow. Run their tests locally or in Docker to confirm the timeout behavior; done means qualifying exercises are flagged as slow and no longer run on the website UI.

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Description

This is an open issue for Exercises that have reasonable solutions that "time out" under test in the UI.

To be clear -- this is not for exercises that time out due to inefficient code, but ones that reasonably pass in in the runner locally or in docker, but take too long in the UI once the containers are spun up and configured.

For now, we need to flag these as "slow", so that they don't run on the website and unnecessarily take up resources.

Please add any additional exercises you think fit this criteria. Thanks!

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  • Pythagorean Triplet
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