On 8/24/05, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:13:50PM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > Do you want to take the chance of finding out the hard way after having > built 10G (or more) worth of software? > > This is not a case of embedded software where you cross-compile > something that ends up on a flash medium the size of which is counted in > megabytes; this is not a case of software which is being checked and > tested immediately after compilation and before deployment. This is a > whole distribution. Subtle bugs in the compiler may go unnoticed for a > fair while if you don't have machines that run that software 24/7. If > you replace build daemons by cross-compiling machines, you lose machines
Instead of replacing machines you could add cross-compiling machines to detect bugs earlier if the native machines can't keep up with (speculative) compiling to find (toolchain) bugs.
