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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-11-17 19:54:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-11-17 19:56:33 +0100 |
| commit | 879a753d2a87905e76f0cea3893954d5c80e97d1 (patch) | |
| tree | 694c343ffdd3ab813b4dcc85a4b99b1bb2efd1b5 | |
| parent | 2e427f5c33a0b335338a9a75a79d8ee601755ced (diff) | |
topgit: Add section about (not) running it on GNU/Hurd.
| -rw-r--r-- | open_issues/performance/io_system.mdwn | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | topgit.mdwn | 9 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/open_issues/performance/io_system.mdwn b/open_issues/performance/io_system.mdwn index f5b5506a..0d41d3c7 100644 --- a/open_issues/performance/io_system.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/performance/io_system.mdwn @@ -33,9 +33,14 @@ optimizing complex systems. That said, the killing feature we are definitely missing is the read-ahead, and even a very simple implementation would bring very big performance speedups. -Here's a real use-case: [[binutils_ld_64ksec]]. +Here are some real testcases: + + * [[binutils_ld_64ksec]]; + + * running the Git testsuite which is mostly I/O bound; + + * use [[TopGit]] on a non-toy repository. -Another one is running the Git testsuite which is mostly I/O bound, too. Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) diff --git a/topgit.mdwn b/topgit.mdwn index df2b7266..b71038ec 100644 --- a/topgit.mdwn +++ b/topgit.mdwn @@ -25,3 +25,12 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] We're using this for some packages, where we're maintaining long-lived development branches, for example [[source_repositories/binutils]] or [[source_repositories/glibc]]. The latter one has usage examples, too. + + +# Running it on GNU/Hurd + +Nothing special to that, technically, *only* that our [[I/O system's (non-) +performance|open_issues/performance/io_system]] will render this unbearably +slow for anything but simple test cases. So don't try to run it on the [[GCC]] +or [[glibc]] repositories. Talk to [[tschwinge]] about how he's using it on a +GNU/Linux machine and push the resulting trees to GNU/Hurd systems. |