On 2024-07-21 16:26:41 +0000, Vincent Legoll wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 12:57 PM Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > > > I guess this is probably what we should permit: building locally when we > > cannot offload. > > > > Does that make sense? > > > > What about making "build locally" not a special case, but just "offloading > to > localhost" ?
That will not work without reworking (fixing) the offload mechanism. (Some?) flags are currently ignored for offload (--check, --rounds, ...), but you want to have them working at least locally when you need them. > > Maybe as an implicit default, so that it would work naturally as today. > > And with some way to deny it for people who don't want to build locally > at all, whatever their reason might be. > > Would that trim some "build locally"-specific code ? > > Is that already how it's done ? > > Is the idea crazy / dumb ? No, I like it in general, if nothing else it would put the offload code on critical path, ensuring it fully works. I wonder what are the downsides (I am sure there are some). > > -- > Vincent Legoll Tomas -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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