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From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, info-gnu@gnu.org, bootstrappable@freelists.org,
	rb-general@lists.reproducible-builds.org, guix-devel@gnu.org,
	guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU Mes 0.19 released
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:20:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877eg92h45.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877eg91av2.fsf@gnu.org>

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:

> Mes has now brought the Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap to Guix (bootstrap
> a GNU/Linux system without binary GNU toolchain or equivalent)

That’s awesome!

> This release introduces strings as byte-array, hash-tables and native
> structs.  While that does increase the footprint somewhat, it fixes
> our performance issue; tinycc is now compiled in ~8min (WAS: ~1h30).

Wow! I did not expect such a huge difference.

> Next targets:
>
>  - translate mes.c into unsnarfed mes.M2
>  - use Gash to remove bash, coreutils&co, grep, sed, tar from the Guix
>    bootstrap binaries

Is this about configure+make?

>  - bootstrap gcc-3.x or 4.x directly, drop initial gcc-2.95.3 target?

Do you have a document showing the bootstrap path — ideally in graph
form, i.e. with plantuml activity diagram?
http://plantuml.com/activity-diagram-legacy

>  - Debian?
- Gentoo?

>  - ARM, the Hurd?

The Hurd would be nice!

Thank you for your great work!

Best wishes,
Arne
--
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-16 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-16 20:21 GNU Mes 0.19 released Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2018-12-16 23:20 ` Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]
2018-12-17 11:19   ` [bootstrappable] " Ricardo Wurmus
2018-12-17 20:56     ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2018-12-17 21:37       ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2018-12-17 23:34         ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2018-12-17 12:08 ` Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski

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