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From: Kelledin <kel...@sk...> - 2003-04-10 00:57:27
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Again, Gestation has gone through an update. I finally got a current Gestation snapshot installed as my main desktop. There were some wrinkles to work out, but thankfully, all known wrinkles have been worked out. Current Gestation is now very usable. On my system (T-bird 1.33GHz), a Gestation snapshot generally takes about 32 hours for a first-time build. After accumulating compiler cache in a first-time build, successive rebuilds take about 18 hours. At this rate, it should be easy to dedicate a relatively inexpensive single-CPU host to do daily Gestation x86 builds. I'll look into this and see what can be had. Building Gestation on my Alpha (decrepit old 600MHz LX164)...well...that takes a little longer. :/ I won't have accurate timing results for a while, and due to lack of hardware on my Alpha, I won't be able to test Gestation on Alpha quite as much as I'd like. Getting an Alpha with sufficient horsepower for daily Gestation builds probably isn't going to be cheap, so unless someone spots a VERY good deal, we should probably forget about that for now. Terry, I hate to be a nag, but how is ftp.inceptionos.org coming along? It would be nice to get Gestation out there for the public to play with... ;) -- Kelledin "If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does it still cost four figures to fix?" |