On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 04:02:48PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > How much effort is it to do an archive rebuild nowadays ? How studly > a computer (or computers?) do I need.
A few outdated data points: * a single cheap Odroid-U2 arm SoC needs 51 days * a beefy crapload-cores, everything-in-RAM machine can do it in 17 hours; adding even more cores doesn't help as libreoffice takes that much and doesn't paralellize further * half a decade ago it was a matter of ~350 fast amd64 core-hours, this might still hold as archive bloat+gcc slowdown might match increases of single-core performance Meow! -- A MAP07 (Dead Simple) raspberry tincture recipe: 0.5l 95% alcohol, 1kg raspberries, 0.4kg sugar; put into a big jar for 1 month. Filter out and throw away the fruits (can dump them into a cake, etc), let the drink age at least 3-6 months.
