[phobos] auto-tester update

[Brad Roberts]

On 2/20/2011 5:25 PM, David Simcha wrote:
> On 2/20/2011 8:20 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
>> Likely not hard to add, but I haven't seen a demonstrated community desire for them.  There was one person with a subset
>> of patches for netbsd.  That said, if someone donates an account on a box, that'd be a step in the right direction.  I'm
>> trying to avoid accumulating a box per platform, though mostly failing at it.
>>
>>
> 
> What's wrong with virtualization as a solution to the one-box-per-platform problem?  Just use your favorite OS as your
> host, get a ton of RAM, and run all the rest in VMs.

It's a solution, but not a great one.  The build runs are already cpu bound, so diving up the cpu's just means
everything goes slower.