From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add ledger.
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 14:06:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160516180651.GA10211@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lh39yjze.fsf@dustycloud.org>
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:45:57PM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> Leo Famulari writes:
> > My opinion is that 3 or 4 GB is not a very small amount of RAM for a
> > personal computer.
> >
> > I think that allowing users with "only" 4 GB RAM to build our ledger
> > package is worth it taking twice as long for the rest of us.
> >
> > Or, users with ≤ 4 GB RAM could make a private variant of ledger that
> > disables parallel building. We sometimes suggest that users with
> > esoteric requirements or restrictions do something like this, but I
> > don't think this is one of those cases.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> I guess I'm of a different view... it was only very recently that I
> upgraded to a machine that had > 4GB ram. And not too long ago I had a
> machine with 2GB of ram for a long time.
Don't we agree? I think we should not parellelize the tests, since 4 GB
RAM is too high to be a minimum requirement.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-16 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-07 18:38 [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add ledger Alex Griffin
2016-05-07 19:20 ` Alex Griffin
2016-05-07 22:23 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-08 2:10 ` Alex Griffin
2016-05-09 3:39 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-09 20:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-09 21:01 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-12 3:28 ` Alex Griffin
2016-05-12 9:12 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-12 16:31 ` Alex Griffin
2016-05-12 19:03 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-13 19:16 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-13 21:05 ` Alex Griffin
2016-05-14 2:49 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-16 15:03 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-16 17:45 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-05-16 18:05 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-05-16 18:06 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-05-16 18:45 ` Leo Famulari
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