* Peter Memishian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-25 05:54]: > > > I would like to propose a project aimed to improve ON build times. This > > can live either under tools or under performance or under some other > > community. > > > > There was some discussion about it a while ago in the context of Google > > summer of code: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=33951 > > While I certainly support the initiative, I'd like to hear a bit more > about what's planned.
Me, too. When people ask me about the build, I always suggest (a) investigating overlapping the kernel build/lint and the library/userland build phases, (b) investigating applicability of ccache and distcc, and (c) assessing a kernel Makefile rewrite--all after reading Alan's paper on measuring the build. It would be nice to hear if any of these are being considered, or what might be pursued in their stead. A project that only seeks to increase naive parallelism won't much help developers on modest systems. Also, there's always the possibility of eliminating bulk of the DEBUG build by looking to DTrace as a means to implement kernel assertions. - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
