diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index 2cc9700d47e..a41c4ef5144 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -133,11 +133,7 @@ resources to test.  Currently only the following are defined:
     decimal -   Test the decimal module against a large suite that
                 verifies compliance with standards.
 
-    compiler -  Test the compiler package by compiling all the source
-                in the standard library and test suite.  This takes
-                a long time.  Enabling this resource also allows
-                test_tokenize to verify round-trip lexing on every
-                file in the test library.
+    cpu -       Used for certain CPU-heavy tests.
 
     subprocess  Run all tests for the subprocess module.
 
@@ -215,7 +211,7 @@ INTERRUPTED = -4
 from test import test_support
 
 RESOURCE_NAMES = ('audio', 'curses', 'largefile', 'network', 'bsddb',
-                  'decimal', 'compiler', 'subprocess', 'urlfetch', 'gui',
+                  'decimal', 'cpu', 'subprocess', 'urlfetch', 'gui',
                   'xpickle')
 
 TEMPDIR = os.path.abspath(tempfile.gettempdir())
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_compiler.py b/Lib/test/test_compiler.py
index 6394b53a0cf..e36a3551da5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_compiler.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_compiler.py
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ from math import *
 
 def test_main():
     global TEST_ALL
-    TEST_ALL = test.test_support.is_resource_enabled("compiler")
+    TEST_ALL = test.test_support.is_resource_enabled("cpu")
     test.test_support.run_unittest(CompilerTest)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_io.py b/Lib/test/test_io.py
index 38cbcbcc2bf..2b4a3a95dab 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_io.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_io.py
@@ -812,6 +812,7 @@ class BufferedReaderTest(unittest.TestCase, CommonBufferedTests):
         self.assertEquals(b"abcdefg", bufio.read())
 
     @unittest.skipUnless(threading, 'Threading required for this test.')
+    @support.requires_resource('cpu')
     def test_threads(self):
         try:
             # Write out many bytes with exactly the same number of 0's,
@@ -1081,6 +1082,7 @@ class BufferedWriterTest(unittest.TestCase, CommonBufferedTests):
             self.assertEqual(f.read(), b"abc")
 
     @unittest.skipUnless(threading, 'Threading required for this test.')
+    @support.requires_resource('cpu')
     def test_threads(self):
         try:
             # Write out many bytes from many threads and test they were
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_support.py b/Lib/test/test_support.py
index 58c84559eaf..6c2b2b23974 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_support.py
@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ def _id(obj):
     return obj
 
 def requires_resource(resource):
-    if resource_is_enabled(resource):
+    if is_resource_enabled(resource):
         return _id
     else:
         return unittest.skip("resource {0!r} is not enabled".format(resource))
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tokenize.py b/Lib/test/test_tokenize.py
index b945d618b58..38da106cb65 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tokenize.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tokenize.py
@@ -493,13 +493,13 @@ Two string literals on the same line
     True
 
 Test roundtrip on random python modules.
-pass the '-ucompiler' option to process the full directory.
+pass the '-ucpu' option to process the full directory.
 
     >>>
     >>> tempdir = os.path.dirname(f) or os.curdir
     >>> testfiles = glob.glob(os.path.join(tempdir, "test*.py"))
 
-    >>> if not test_support.is_resource_enabled("compiler"):
+    >>> if not test_support.is_resource_enabled("cpu"):
     ...     testfiles = random.sample(testfiles, 10)
     ...
     >>> for testfile in testfiles: