Comments on: Problems building GCC in the cloud //seabright.co.nz/2011/07/07/problems-building-gcc-in-the-cloud/ Good Software Engineering Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:50:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: michaelh //seabright.co.nz/2011/07/07/problems-building-gcc-in-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-203 michaelh Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:07:45 +0000 //seabright.co.nz/?p=235#comment-203 I thought about that but had spent too much time on it already :) There's all of the usual chroot problems like /proc and uname being wrong to work around. Interestingly the c1.xlarge has 4x the EC2 Compute Units but only builds twice as fast. GCC is very good at parallel builds, but not good enough to soak up the eight cores. I thought about that but had spent too much time on it already :) There’s all of the usual chroot problems like /proc and uname being wrong to work around.

Interestingly the c1.xlarge has 4x the EC2 Compute Units but only builds twice as fast. GCC is very good at parallel builds, but not good enough to soak up the eight cores.

]]> By: Michael Hudson-Doyle //seabright.co.nz/2011/07/07/problems-building-gcc-in-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Michael Hudson-Doyle Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:06:12 +0000 //seabright.co.nz/?p=235#comment-199 Would a 32-bit chroot or LXC on a c1.xlarge instance be better for the i686 builds? The 32 bit instance types are a bit weedy really. Would a 32-bit chroot or LXC on a c1.xlarge instance be better for the i686 builds? The 32 bit instance types are a bit weedy really.

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