Re: NetBSD/vax vm for github testing

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 07:29:32PM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> > However it takes 24 minutes even to build ancient small emacs-18.59.
> > simh emulating microvax3900 on my i5-4570 NetBSD/amd64 took ~70 hours
> > to build perl 5.38.2 (from pkgsrc-2023Q4) so it won't finish in
> > 6 hour github CI limit.
> 
> I suppose because additional cores can't be thrown at simh, this is a
> difficult limit.

I didn't realize simh had no multiprocessor support (does NetBSD/vax?).
One answer might be distcc if additional VMs could be brought up in
the same network environment.

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