Hi, On Fri, 2020-09-25 at 17:18 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Robbie Harwood: > > Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratoch...@redhat.com> writes: > > > So why is Google using it for everything? > > > > If I could eliminate one bad thought pattern in software design it would > > probably be this one. > > > > In brief: you are not Google, nor are you Facebook, nor Amazon. Your > > problems are not their problems. Your use case is not their use case. > > Plenty of things work great for them that will work terribly for you. > > > > So saying "Google does it" (or similar) is *not* a good argument. > > Agreed, especially since we know that e.g. Google's use of C++ does not > align well with how many other programmers use the language.
The Google engineers responsible for their internal build system don't make it a secret. They use debug-types combined with [out of .o file] split-dwarf[=split]. But they also admit that it is for a specialized use case that might only makes sense if you have a central build system that farms out different parts of the build/compile/link steps to different machines. (for Google) - a distributed build system that is trying to avoid moving more bytes than it must to one machine to run the link step. So not having to ship all the DWARF bytes to one machine for interactive debugging (pulling down from a distributed file system only the needed .dwo files during debugging - not all of them) - or at least being able to ship all the .dwo files to one machine to make a .dwp, and ship all the .o files to another machine for the link. It is certainly a clever setup and makes sense if your build bottleneck is sending files around between different machines. But I don't think this is the generic Fedora packager or developer use case. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
