ESR, how much for the memory expansion? It sounds like we have some
volunteers to solve this problem with some money.
..m
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 2:14 AM Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> 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 wrote:
> >
> > On 07/09/2018 10:53 AM, Janus Weil wrote:
> > > 2018-07-09 18:35 GMT+02:00 Eric S. Raymond :
> > >> David Edelsohn :
> > >>>> 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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