> On May 23, 2015, at 4:05 AM, Stuart Henderson <st...@openbsd.org> wrote: > > On 2015/05/22 23:54, Edward Fochler wrote: >> I agree that improved stability would not justify emulation, because >> of the code targeting problem you cited. But would speed help? > > Not particularly. If the machines and/or OS arch are reliable in the > first place it's not a problem to spread builds across more machines. > But in reality, it's not very reliable, so 1) adding machines just > means babysitting additional crashes, and 2) if emulation is used > instead of real machines, then you're dealing with both OS bugs and > emulator bugs.
Well, only if things crash in one setup, but not the other. Since things work in both without crashes, this isn’t a concern. :) Warner
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