Originally submitted to Google Code by Marcin.Koperski on 13 Aug 2013

I notice that current construction of robotframework start command inside ride its take a lot of time (when %startLocation% contains a lot of test cases in our cases is around 10MB).
For execution following example it take around 1min, (test itself take less then second)
pybot.bat -o none --argumentfile argfile.txt %startLocation%
content of argfile.txt
--test
Robot Project New Format.#aFastStart.DB Test.sample

But for example when run command is a little different with putting explicate path to files with test cases
pybot.bat -o none --argumentfile argfile.txt
content of argfile.txt
%startLocation%#aFastStart\ DB_Test.tsv

It’s take less then second.

Maybe it’s possible to change construction of ride argumentfile so test will be put in more explicate way
Example.
%startLocation%#aFastStart\ DB_Test.tsv|sample
%startLocation%#aFastStart\ DB_Test.tsv|second test case

Without need to check whole %startLocation%