On 2013/06/12 10:41, Landry Breuil wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:27:47AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2013/06/11 16:10, Edd Barrett wrote:
> > > CVSROOT:  /cvs
> > > Module name:      ports
> > > Changes by:       e...@cvs.openbsd.org    2013/06/11 16:10:48
> > > 
> > > Log message:
> > >     Import PyPy
> > >     
> > >     "A fast, compliant alternative implementation of the Python language"
> > >     
> > >     From Laurence Tratt with input from sthen@ and myself.
> > >     
> > >     OK sthen@: "ok sthen who says that beck should add it to torture"
> > 
> > Note this is amd64 only, i386 MAXDSIZ is too low to build it with gcc 4.6
> > (other compilers may possibly fare better, not tested yet).
> > 
> > On amd64, somewhere around 5.5GB should be sufficient. (!)
> 
> Then i'd rather have it not linked to the build if it's to see it fail
> 100% of the time on opi and just using resources for nothing. Not
> everyone has bazillions of RAM.
> 
> Landry
> 

Unlinking it isn't so helpful for people who actually want/need to use
it (a group at Kings College London are doing research which uses pypy on
OpenBSD); wouldn't it be better to just unlink locally on opi like was
done for libreoffice for quite a while? The main bulk build amd64 boxes
have 16GB each.

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