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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add ledger.
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 14:06:51 -0400
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To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
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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.