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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 04:07:48 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   you know you're about to watch paint dry for a _long_ time when just the checkout step in a github actions workflow takes 3+ minutes

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 04:07:48 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     github should have a leaderboard for "most watched build logs" imo

     watch paint dry with me https://github.com/YoWASP/clang/actions/runs/18807245820/job/53663205983

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 05:20:46 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     it's at 43%

     i should get some tea

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 05:37:58 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     it's at 64% and 1h30m... tension is rising... the compilation should succeed within an hour, but then you have the linker. ohhh, you really do have to do some linking.

     i have LTO enabled, which, unusually, is the minor factor in the runtime. what it will do is spend an estimated 40-60 minutes performing nothing but relooping.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 05:39:43 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     this is the exact type of build that prompts "building an overclocked build server with a K-class CPU, never getting it running stable enough" (been there) and "building custom infrastructure components that rent compute from Amazon for exactly the duration of a build, then discard it" (might do for codeberg at some point as github is circling down the drain)

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     Ratsnake Games 🔞 (ratsnakegames@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 05:41:30 JST Ratsnake Games 🔞

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     @whitequark i once had to write a CI script to build seven different Windows installers for slightly different versions of an app that was several gigs large, and for technical reasons *had* to be compressed as tightly as possible

     so that was fun, each build run was 3.5hrs or so and i did a lot of them

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 06:32:14 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     it's linking now!! prepare for uh, at least 30 minutes of it printing nothing and then maybe failing inexplicably

     in other words, the Vivado experience

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 06:35:31 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     i can't believe i've invented "compiling LLVM" as a spectator sport

     what's next? ranked competitive Android builds?

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 06:37:07 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     if i ever run a public Forgejo instance with CI enabled, i'm definitely going to add a custom "public projects with the most CPU minutes in a running CI build" leaderboard, plus also a "public projects with most retries of a commit with the same first line and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE" (opt-out available, paid, used for funding the CI)

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 06:55:17 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi

     @dragonarchitect AI

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     King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi (dragonarchitect@rubber.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 06:55:18 JST King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi

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     @whitequark What's happening to github?

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     Erika (rrika@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 06:57:59 JST Erika

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     @whitequark some people get paid to watch LLVM compile

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 06:59:02 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     the build failed... because the LLVM submodule didn't have tags checked out

     because the results weren't cached (i hoped they would, but either the ccache module can't do it or i haven't configured it to do so) i will now need to wait 2h50m again

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 07:01:13 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     pushed it again, let's go https://github.com/YoWASP/clang/actions/runs/18809007214

     i think the personality trait that i possess that benefits me the most these days is simply "patience"

     my relatives tried to yell/beat it into me. they failed so badly. also as it turns out all they needed to do was to give me an android build to make

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     nelhage (nelhage@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 08:20:53 JST nelhage

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     @whitequark just this week I was talking with someone about creating an "llvm any%" category on https://www.speedrun.com/...

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 09:18:57 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     chat i think i did it wrong and i'll have to run a third 2h40m build ;w;

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 10:12:52 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     third time's the charm https://github.com/YoWASP/clang/actions/runs/18810827426

     (i was not able to reproduce the problem locally, for mysterious git reasons, but i'm pretty sure i fixed it)

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 10:12:53 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     yep 🥀

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     AlexB (vmp_@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 12:59:28 JST AlexB

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     @whitequark shame tax ;)

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 13:00:20 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     it failed again because i'm a complete loser who can't proofread. ok fine at least it's github's cpu time that i'm wasting here https://github.com/YoWASP/clang/actions/runs/18812672471

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 13:00:21 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     97%! almost done again!!!

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 15:53:30 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     YES! YES!!! IT FINISHED THE BUILD

     now i will no longer have to wait 2h50m every time i do anything because it put everything into ccache and will (i hope) use it next time

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 15:59:47 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     ... now i'll just need to run the build _again_, in a release branch so that github will sign the resulting artifact and upload it to npm... https://github.com/YoWASP/clang/actions/runs/18814431183/job/53680610560

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:08:40 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     okay i can confirm ccache works... a warm rebuild takes "only" 20 minutes or so

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:09:15 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     after 12 hours of non-stop compiling and babysitting the fucking CI workflo i will finally have a package (that i already had on my disk) uploaded to the package repository

     computers are amazing.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:30:19 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • dram🎀

     @dramforever 💀

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     dram🎀 (dramforever@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:30:20 JST dram🎀

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     @whitequark

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:31:33 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Joshix
     • aa

     @joshix @aa GitHub only gives you a limited amount of free CI time (and Blacksmith gives you some for free too)

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     Joshix (joshix@fosspri.de)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:31:35 JST Joshix

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     • aa

     @aa @whitequark "A dead simple, drop-in replacement that costs 75% less than GitHub runners" does that mean that they are free?

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     aa (aa@shrimple.aagaming.me)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:31:44 JST aa

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     @whitequark@mastodon.social u might like https://www.blacksmith.sh/

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:40:42 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Joshix
     • aa

     @joshix @aa oh, looks like you are right

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     Joshix (joshix@fosspri.de)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:40:44 JST Joshix

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     • aa

     @whitequark @aa don't you have unlimited free time for open source?

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     a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:41:05 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

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     @whitequark can github actions dispatch multiple reads i mean builds in parallel :P

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:41:21 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     naturally the build immediately failed because of a misconfiguration of a third party service (i forgor 💀)

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     a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:42:12 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

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     @whitequark i hear that increases throughput :P

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:42:12 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

     @rakslice i only build one artifact

     (i do build with `make -j` or the equivalent)

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 18:44:39 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     IT IS DONE. THE DEED IS FINALLY DONE

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 18:44:56 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     *fourteen hours straight* of babysitting the fuckin build

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 19:48:54 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • yopp

     @alex oh yes, I want precisely this.

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     yopp (alex@feed.yopp.me)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 19:49:01 JST yopp

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     @whitequark Stanford be like “heck, can we spread compilation over virtually unlimited aws lambda calls” and make gg

     http://stanford.edu/~sadjad/gg-paper.pdf

     I’m not sure if there maintained tools based on this paper. llama seems dead https://github.com/nelhage/llama