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*Original comment by* **Loic Dachary (Bitbucket: [dachary](https://bitbucket.org/dachary), GitHub: [dachary](https://github.com/dachary))** ---------------------------------------- @cjerdonek do you think all files should be treated as case insensitive on MacOSX ?

*Original comment by* **Loic Dachary (Bitbucket: [dachary](https://bitbucket.org/dachary), GitHub: [dachary](https://github.com/dachary))** ---------------------------------------- I guess the problem is still around since [not much changed in files.py](https://bitbucket.org/ned/coveragepy/history-node/b06a49226173/coverage/files.py?at=default) since the last comment on this issue....

*Original comment by* **Chris Jerdonek (Bitbucket: [cjerdonek](https://bitbucket.org/cjerdonek), GitHub: [cjerdonek](https://github.com/cjerdonek))** ---------------------------------------- The problem still occurs with version 4.0a5. $ coverage debug sys data -- sys ------------------------------------------------------- version: 4.0a5 coverage: /Users/chris/Dev/.virtualenvs/my_package/lib/python3.4/site-packages/coverage/__init__.py cover_dir:...

@cjerdonek Sorry it took me so long to get to this. Would you mind trying this again with the latest alpha release of coverage? It's currently 4.0a3. Also, could you...

*Original comment by* **Chris Jerdonek (Bitbucket: [cjerdonek](https://bitbucket.org/cjerdonek), GitHub: [cjerdonek](https://github.com/cjerdonek))** ---------------------------------------- Okay, it looks like it's not sufficient to address `unittest`'s behavior because I believe coverage still computes the paths of...

*Original comment by* **Chris Jerdonek (Bitbucket: [cjerdonek](https://bitbucket.org/cjerdonek), GitHub: [cjerdonek](https://github.com/cjerdonek))** ---------------------------------------- I filed this issue in Python's issue tracker for the unittest behavior: http://bugs.python.org/issue23097 If this unittest issue were fixed, then...

*Original comment by* **Chris Jerdonek (Bitbucket: [cjerdonek](https://bitbucket.org/cjerdonek), GitHub: [cjerdonek](https://github.com/cjerdonek))** ---------------------------------------- So to say more, it looks like `'/Users/chris/Dev/python/my_package'` is originally in `sys.path`, and then `unittest` adds the following to the...

*Original comment by* **Chris Jerdonek (Bitbucket: [cjerdonek](https://bitbucket.org/cjerdonek), GitHub: [cjerdonek](https://github.com/cjerdonek))** ---------------------------------------- I discovered something that might be related. It looks like this is tied to a file-system case issue. I'm running...

> IMHO something with level of obsolesence should be closed. Can you say more about what you mean?

@spaceone .start and .stop happen during the measurement phase. Computing the percentage is the reporting phase, which involves analyzing code, a slow operation. We'll need to continue to keep them...