Daniel Murphy (yebblies)

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/13/11 9:12 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
> On 13/06/2011 14:39, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Walter is continuously working on improving speed of pull request
>> integration. The bottleneck right now is the compiler test suite, which
>> takes hours to run.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Is there some way we could speed this up? Obviously it can't be run for
> multiple pull requests at once, as they requests could affect each
> other, so it'll need a third run if they're run at the same time. Is
> there some way we could work around that?

Actually I suggested him to optimistically integrate several requests at 
once and then run the test suite. Only if the suite fails, fall back on 
integrating one at a time.

> What hardware does it take hours to run on? Could a donation of some
> faster hardware help? Perhaps something like Google does could be useful
> to decrease the amount of time the suite takes (see my post about
> continuous integration at Google not too long ago).

Walter?


Andrei