Hi Jeff, On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 07:46:24AM -0600, Jeffrey Law via Gcc wrote: > On 3/24/2026 3:02 AM, Dongsheng Song via Gcc wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 4:37 PM Richard Biener > ><[email protected]> wrote: > >>On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 9:25 AM Dongsheng Song <[email protected]> > >>wrote: > >>>I downloaded the archives of the most recent seven GCC test-result > >>>emails. The results of the AI analysis are presented below for your > >>>reference: > [ ... ] > I'd be careful drawing conclusions here. It's interesting data, > but I wouldn't necessarily equate it to port viability, popularity, > or anything like that. It's just measuring who's set up their CI > bots to post to gcc-testresults. If I look at build #s in my system > (which would correspond to how many messages it would have sent to > gcc-testresults if I let it) it would show that riscv is about 2X as > popular as x86_64 which is just silly. Even something like pru-elf > would be seen as more popular than x86_64 because I often run the > crosses for sniff testing without the natives. Things like ppc > would be at the bottom of the list because they're qemu emulated and > with a 24+hr cycle time I only run them once a week). > > A much more useful metric at least on the ISA side would be changes > to the relevant config/ directory. That won't get you granularity > at the target level since a given ISA might have several ports for > different OS variants. THat's still going to be noisy data for a > multitude of reasons, but at least gets you closer to measuring port > popularity at the developer level.
To add a little more statistics (also arbitrary of course) here is the prelimenary result of the Sourceware Survey 2026 https://sourceware.org/survey-2026 (it runs for another 9 days) for the "builder.sourceware.org hardware?" question "Which architectures have the highest priority, or which are missing?": 26%: x86_64 26%: arm64 10%: riscv64 8%: i686 5%: armhf 5%: ppc64le 5%: s390x 3%: ppc64 This is based on 40 responses, where more than half didn't answer he question. So not sure how relevant it is. I am surprised that in this survery arm64 is as important as x86_64. riscv64 is more important than the 32bit i686 and armhf. And the big endian arches come last. We'll report the final tally when the survey ends (end of next week). If you haven't taken the Survey yes, please do. It really helps the Sourceware Project Leadership Committee decide what our infrastructure priorities should be. https://sourceware.org/survey-2026 Thanks, Mark
