Re: [PATCH 6/7] .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml: Unify the prerequisite packages

[Bin Meng]

Hi Thomas,

On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 8:32 AM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 12:32 AM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 08/09/2022 15.28, Bin Meng wrote:
> > > From: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
> > >
> > > At present the prerequisite packages for 64-bit and 32-bit builds
> > > are slightly different. Let's use the same packages for both.
> >
> > Not sure whether that's a good idea ... I did that on purpose to save some
> > few time during compilation (since the Windows jobs are running very long
> > already) ... did you check whether it makes a difference in the run time 
> > now?
> >
>
> Not much difference on the build time. Actually I found after we
> switched to single thread build the time did not increase too.
>
> One side note regarding the gitlab shared runner:
>
> It seems the shared runner Windows VM is quite slow. Is it possible to
> get a faster VM externally?

Any further comment for this patch?

Regards,
Bin