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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Portability should be a higher priority for Guix (was Re: 01/01: build-system/meson: Really skip the 'fix-runpath' phase on armhf.)
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 10:50:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wouaf4ma.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871scin5bs.fsf_-_@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Wed, 04 Jul 2018 15:55:51 -0400")

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Another problem is that Guile 2.2's compiler has become so heavy that
> it's nearly unbearable to use on slower hardware.  Simply running "make"
> in my Guix git checkout after updating on my mips-based Yeeloong is so
> slow that I'm in the habit of letting it run overnight.

This is a topic on its own, and I really think we can and should do
better.  I posted observations on where the compiler is spending its
time and memory earlier; Andy pushed improvements, but I believe there’s
much more than can be done:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2017-10/msg00035.html
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2017-05/msg00033.html

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-05  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20180702101758.97A6020543@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2018-07-02 17:29   ` 01/01: build-system/meson: Really skip the 'fix-runpath' phase on armhf Mark H Weaver
2018-07-02 18:06     ` Marius Bakke
2018-07-03 19:20       ` Mark H Weaver
2018-07-04  7:21         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-04 19:55           ` RFC: Portability should be a higher priority for Guix (was Re: 01/01: build-system/meson: Really skip the 'fix-runpath' phase on armhf.) Mark H Weaver
2018-07-04 22:32             ` Kei Kebreau
2018-07-05  8:39               ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-05 14:15                 ` Kei Kebreau
2018-07-05  9:04               ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2018-07-05 19:40                 ` Andreas Enge
2018-07-05  6:38             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-07-05  8:46               ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-05  9:52               ` Andreas Enge
2018-07-05  8:50             ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-07-05  9:01             ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-02 18:28     ` 01/01: build-system/meson: Really skip the 'fix-runpath' phase on armhf Marius Bakke
2018-07-03 19:24       ` Mark H Weaver
2018-07-04  7:27         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-04 14:27           ` Marius Bakke
2018-07-03 21:28       ` Ludovic Courtès

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