Re: [Chicken-hackers] gcc compile farm

[Felix]

From: Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] gcc compile farm
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:37:53 -0400

> Hi Felix,
> 
> On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:54:26 +0200 (CEST) Felix <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>>>> I registered at the GCC Compile Farm:
>>>>
>>>>   http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm
>>>>
>>>> Contact me if you're interested in getting chicken-stuff tested on one
>>>> of their machines.
>>> 
>>> That's very interesting.  Would running salmonella on that farm be
>>> possible?  I'm asking because salmonella is pretty heavy weight in terms
>>> or processor/memory usage.
>>
>> I think running it regularly will probably become annoying for other
>> users.
> 
> Ok.
> 

Well, that doesn't mean one could give it a try. I don't really now
whether it may be a problem or not.

>>
>> That's a nice option. Perhaps it could also allow building only *changed*
>> eggs since a given timestamp?
> 
> That's a good approach for testing eggs, indeed.  OTOH, by skipping
> unchanged eggs, we could miss some opportunities to test the compiler.

Right. Perhaps it's not such a great idea.


cheers,
felix