had forgotten to reply also to the list... doing it now:
[cut the part where it was suggested to make package that contains LLVM Intermediate Representation bitcode rather than CPU specific assembler]
On 2020-05-29 1:01 a.m., John M. Harris Jr wrote:
Paul, What benefit do you see in the overhead of LLVM IR, compared to standard packages?
John,
Where do you see overhead in the distribution of LLVM IR?
Advantages:
* more space on the hard disks of the servers, because they contains repositories only for LLVM IR packages rather than one by supported architectures
* less use of the CPU time of the servers because they don't optimize code for specific CPUs
* very reduced cost for supporting more architectures, as code is client-side generated
* faster code on clients with recent CPUs, because code is optimized for them, and was not in the old way of doing because you had to distribute for a common base CPU
* CPU specific code generation and optimizations can be done on idle time of the clients... there is not much idle time of the servers