Hi Peter, Peter Simons <[email protected]> writes:
> >> the Linux kernel, GHC, GCC, glibc, etc. > > > > Among the thousands of packages in these distros, it may be that not > > all of them are as good as the 4 projects you mention. [...] > For those packages I mentioned, the cost/benefit ratio is extremely > favorable, because there's no significant risk that the builds are > broken, yet, there is a lot of time to be saved by utilizing more than > one core to compile them. Agreed. (Though it’s unclear how much time would be saved on hydra.nixos.org by doing this.) > For other packages, that cost/benefit ratio is far worse. Consequently, > I don't believe that we should set out to build *everything* with > parallel compilation enabled. [...] > Does that sound like a reasonable approach to you? Yes, sure. Thanks, Ludo’. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
