Very interesting and useful too. I gave up and aborted the build after ON build kept running for 5 hrs on Solaris on VMWare. If you a create a separate project, please post it so that we can join the efforts. Cheers, -Atul
On 3/27/07, Eric Saxe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alexander Kolbasov wrote: > 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. > +1 -Eric _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
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