Looking into LLVM
Peter Jones
pjones at redhat.com
Mon Oct 26 15:09:02 UTC 2009
On 10/26/2009 10:51 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 10/26/2009 08:21 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>
>>
>> Which affects who? koji certainly seems to be keeping up with the load.
>>
>> What I'm trying to pry out of you is what you'd be hoping to accomplish
>> by using it. The answer so far seems to be "I'd spend less time
>> building things, at the cost of some unknown amount of time invested in
>> fixing everything to build again". That doesn't sound like progress.
>
> Certainly status quo is easier. Less time building things is a obvious
> benefit.
This is just myopia, though. In isolation, yes, faster builds are nice. But
if the faster builds result in poorer quality, then no, they're not a benefit.
> We don't know the cost unless we try. Doing a scratch build
> similar to the FTFBS rebuilds is definitely worth trying IMO. Arguing
> that we should never try at all doesn't seem appealing to me.
Go ahead and set that up. Report the result back to us.
--
Peter
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