18 Aug
2020
18 Aug
'20
7:52 p.m.
On Aug 18, 2020, at 5:50 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 8/17/20 5:34 PM, Chris Hanson via cctalk wrote:
Did you miss the part where I said it would make it much easier to experiment with it if
the build system was better? For example, switching between different networking
implementations can require a rebuild.
One thing that would make it much easier to
experiment with SIMH in scenarios like this is if its build system wasn't horribly
redundant.
Why are you mentioning SIMH's /build/ system in a thread discussion boot times?
I wouldn't object if SIMH's /build/ took 20
minutes if it's something that only happens every 3-12 months while starting on a tiny
Linux / *BSD / et al. system that /boots/ in a low number of seconds.
SIMH improves quickly enough that you won't want to do a 20 minute build every 3-12
months, but instead perform new builds with some regularity.
Between that and ease of experimenting (or the lack thereof) a bad build system can really
hold back a project.
-- Chris