Shrinking the kernel with a hammer

Posted Mar 7, 2018 22:42 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
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The Linux build process must be one of the most wasteful things you can do on a computer

Crypto-“currency” mining?

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Shrinking the kernel with a hammer

Posted Mar 8, 2018 8:52 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link] (1 responses)

In Linuscoin the computational challenge is to start with the SHA256 of a Linux kernel image and work out the combination of build options needed to produce it.

Shrinking the kernel with a hammer

Posted Mar 9, 2018 16:46 UTC (Fri) by fratti (subscriber, #105722) [Link]

Something semi-related:

https://marcan.st/2017/12/debugging-an-evil-go-runtime-bug/ (heading "Hash-based differential compilation")