RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 18:08 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > Looking at last gcc build times (not unusual, though I really remember
> > arm taking much longer than that, e.g. 4.7.0-0.11.fc17 took almost 17
> > hours on both arm architectures), from
> > http://*koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/gcc/4.7.0/0.20.fc17/data/logs/*/state.log :
> > i686            4h18m
> > x86_64          1h25m
> > ppc             4h12m
> > ppc64           4h16m
> > s390            6h27m
> > s390x           6h04m
> > armv5tel        26h20m
> > armv7hl         24h17m
> > 
> > So even speeding this up twice means it is still 2x slower than the
> > slowest other secondary architecture.
> 
> Ouch!!!
> 
> That shows that ARM should be the LAST architecture we consider for primary
> status rather than the first. (That said, I don't think it makes sense to
> make PPC primary again or to make S/390 primary. They don't have anywhere
> near the market share. But IMHO ARM doesn't have the market share either.)

Can you define what market you refer to ?

Simo.

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