Please send me your longest DustMite runs!

[Johan Engelen]

On Saturday, 24 April 2021 at 06:49:51 UTC, Berni44 wrote:
> On Friday, 23 April 2021 at 23:17:41 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
> wrote:
>> - Was there a bug / program / codebase that took an 
>> exceptionally long time to reduce with DustMite?
>
> Reducing whole Phobos takes long. I did that several times a 
> year ago. Took several days. I think, the problem is, that it 
> takes long until the connections between the modules (imports) 
> are cut. After these are gone, whole files can be removed. But 
> at that stage dustmite already tries to remove single lines or 
> parts of them.

I cannot share the code. Dustmiting at Weka always takes a very 
long time, the reason I suspect is all the module connections 
indeed. When starting a dustmite session I now often start with 
emptying the bodies of functions (easy for void-returning 
functions), to cut the module dependencies.

-Johan