CI: Why Travis & Circle

jmh530 john.michael.hall at gmail.com
Sat Nov 16 13:18:38 UTC 2019


On Saturday, 16 November 2019 at 09:07:45 UTC, Petar Kirov 
[ZombineDev] wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Most likely the reason is parallelism. Every CI service offers 
> a limited amount of agents that can run in parallel, which 
> limits the number of test matrix combinations that you can run 
> in a reasonable amount of time. For example, many of the major 
> D projects are tested across different OSes and several 
> versions of D compilers. Additionally some CIs are faster than 
> others. In my experience CircleCI is faster than TravisCI by a 
> large margin.
>

Thank you for the very insightful answer.


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