Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc

Posted Dec 5, 2019 6:37 UTC (Thu) by sionescu (subscriber, #59410)
In reply to: Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc by pizza
Parent article: Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc

Yes, eventually everyone should compile their own stuff. Most task containers on Borg contain exactly one statically-linked binary in addition to a very thin runtime mounted read-only from the host.

Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc

Posted Dec 5, 2019 21:31 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

And Google manages that because they have a *centralized* organization with a *single* *unified* SCM tree.

So, good model for a cloud giant.

Atrocious model for everyone *not* a cloud giant.