I'm aware of academic research regarding HPC and superoptimizing, but no one has applied that to generalized
distro testing, so far. (At least not in public.)
I think this should be a hook in some reproducible build system.
But everyboody seems to have caved in against the complexity
explosion this would involve. And build times.
"The bargraph game is lame."
edit: To expand on this, there is/was one person who tried to tackle this in a meaningful way.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070607182125/http://www.coyote...
The bitrotten remains of this can be found here: [2] https://github.com/Acovea/libacovea
I'm aware of academic research regarding HPC and superoptimizing, but no one has applied that to generalized distro testing, so far. (At least not in public.)
I think this should be a hook in some reproducible build system.
But everyboody seems to have caved in against the complexity explosion this would involve. And build times.
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