I would like to propose a project aimed to improve ON build times. This can live either under tools or under performance or under some other community.
There was some discussion about it a while ago in the context of Google summer of code: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=33951 It may be a part of ONNV project, or something else if you think that some other project/community is more suitable. The goal of the project is to make our ON builds faster. This includes, but is not limited to: - Developing and running observability tools to understand existing problems and find some low-hanging fruits - Increasing build parallelism - Taking advantage of new OpenSOlaris technologies like DTrace and ZFS. - Cleaning up Makefiles (at least some major Makefile issues) - Exploring some aggressive tricks and techniques to radically improve build times - Exploring various caching approaches. The goal is to make builds fast enough for developers to be productive. This is, probably, going to be an open-ended project. -- Alex Kolbasov _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org