On Friday, 13 March 2020 04:19:22 EST Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > 13.03.2020, 08:55, "Thiago Macieira" <[email protected]>: > > For a complex set of needs like Qt's, you'l still need a dedicated person > > or multiple people. And this isn't free either, despite there being a lot > > of free CIs for open source projects: first, because it's meant to serve > > the commercial version too and second because the free computing power is > > likely to be insufficient for Qt's needs. We'll need to purchase > > additional time or do Bring Your Own VM or Bring Your Own Container so we > > can test on more configurations than the CI provides, which means > > sysadmins are needed to keep those configurations running. > > Also note that it's impossible to do performance testing in the cloud, using > self-hosted runners it is imperative for reproducibility of results.
Sure you can. Just hire a bare metal machine or a whole-machine VM. Those things exist at AWS and GCP. For something like $200/hr. Note you can get a full bare metal machine for 750€/yr at Hetzner.de. But it comes with sysadmin cost, since it's *just* the machine. PS: Intel has a technology called RDT that is meant to allow Cloud Service Providers to offer solutions that isolate one tenant from another's noisy access, including cache thrashing and memory bandwidth. I don't know if the CSPs sell fractions of a full machine but guaranteeing performance, using RDT. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel System Software Products _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
