Re: [Chicken-users] Nursery sizing considered stupid

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> A user has no reason to expect that the build is going to be sensitive 
> to the machine load at the time of the build.  [...]
>
> I think for this reason, nsample must not be part of the standard 
> build procedure.  [...] Since the absence of such a policy leads to 
> insanity, I will be implementing it in the CMake build shortly.  That 
> is how it will remain unless someone is more clever than I am.

Policy effected, tested, and pushed to Darcs.

The only clever way I can think of to reverse the policy, is to build up 
a public database of benchmark submissions for various target 
configurations.  Then the defaults could be target specific.  It would 
still be a matter of selecting defaults.  A naive user cannot be trusted 
to run stack-size.cmake.

Target specific results would require architectural canonization.  Yeah, 
./configure does that.   Not sure about CMake.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every