From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) 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 Message-ID: <87wouaf4ma.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180702101757.22792.51026@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180702101758.97A6020543@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <8736x1r1g0.fsf@netris.org> <877emdwm0f.fsf@fastmail.com> <87efgknn2v.fsf@netris.org> <87in5veaao.fsf@gnu.org> <871scin5bs.fsf_-_@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38718) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fazyM-00043T-B5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 04:50:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fazyJ-0008TJ-9a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 04:50:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <871scin5bs.fsf_-_@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Wed, 04 Jul 2018 15:55:51 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mark H Weaver 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=E2= =80=99s 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=E2=80=99.