On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 01:57:52AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > * single-CPU machines have gone the way of the dodo. Even the crummiest > machine I could find while dumpster-diving looking for a non-sse3 one > already has HT and builds your examples successfully. Same for ARM SoCs > -- my RPi1 is kaputt, and anything newer has multiple cores. This, I'd > say it's a waste of time to care about _building_ on single CPU.
/me looks lovingly at the PowerPC G4 Mac Mini propping up his display. I wonder if I should consider registering as a porter... How uncommon are single CPU virtual machines? Or containers with resource constraints to one CPU or something similar? I think that is at least as relevant as the availability of (new) uniprocessor hardware. None of the FTBFS problems I've seen in this thread have been because the tests *required* multiple cores, by the way; more so that they were racy or buggy in some other fashion. If uniprocessor buildds are finding these bugs then that's a virtue, IMHO. -- Jonathan Dowland
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