Wait, there's a pot of money for making SVN go away? Sign me up!
While we're at it, let's start one for TCL and dejagnu!
On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 6:58 PM Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 07/09/2018 10:53 AM, Janus Weil wrote:
> > 2018-07-09 18:35 GMT+02:00 Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com>:
> >> David Edelsohn <dje....@gmail.com>:
> >>>> The truth is we're near the bleeding edge of what conventional tools
> >>>> and hardware can handle gracefully. Most jobs with working sets as
> >>>> big as this one's do only comparatively dumb operations that can be
> >>>> parallellized and thrown on a GPU or supercomputer. Most jobs with
> >>>> the algorithmic complexity of repository surgery have *much* smaller
> >>>> working sets. The combination of both extrema is hard.
> >>>
> >>> If you come to the conclusion that the GCC Community could help with
> >>> resources, such as the GNU Compile Farm or paying for more RAM, let us
> >>> know.
> >>
> >> 128GB of DDR4 registered RAM would allow me to run conversions with my
> >> browser up, but be eye-wateringly expensive. Thanks, but I'm not
> >> going to yell for that help
> >
> > I for one would certainly be happy to donate some spare bucks towards
> > beastie RAM if it helps to get the GCC repo converted to git in a
> > timely manner, and I'm sure there are other GCC
> > developers/users/sympathizers who'd be willing to join in. So, where
> > do we throw those bucks?
> I'd be willing to throw some $$$ at this as well.
> Jeff
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