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[Graknorke]

How do you feel about the occasional lethal dose of radiation? According to Wikipedia, 30 grays is enough to make a human's salivary, tear, sweat, and whatever the one that makes vaginal lubrication glands nonfunctional, so I imagine it would also cause slugs to dry out.

[Graknorke]

How do you feel about the occasional lethal dose of radiation?

I like the future possibility of having my own little genetic lumps running around at some point.

I meant directed at the area of the plants. Not yourself.

[alway]

Our office got Incredibuild up and running. Today, I did a build which utilized 107 CPU cores at a combined 357GHz. A full rebuild now only takes 5 minutes instead of 20-30! Woo!

[Frumple]

*stares* Is... is that cost efficient? I mean, what's your normal core/ghz amount, and how many times that did it take to get a 3/4ths to 5/6ths reduction in build time?

[alway]

*stares* Is... is that cost efficient? I mean, what's your normal core/ghz amount, and how many times that did it take to get a 3/4ths to 5/6ths reduction in build time?

So, here's how it works: Incredibuild is a distributed compiling environment. You tell your project to build through the Incredibuild client, it tells your local server machine about it. The server machine then dynamically allocates all available Incredibuild client machines connected to it between whatever build jobs are being done. As most big projects have tons of files to compile, they can trivially split off into their individual files, sent out, and compile to the intermediate files in parallel. The intermediates then get sent back to the originating client, which then does the serial task of linking them together. Those machines can then be routed to other tasks, as they can't really do anything while linking; and it reallocates machines back (though not necessarily the same ones in the pool if there's multiple builds happening) if there's more work to do later.

Now, the important thing here is that when coding, you aren't compiling all the time; in fact, it's probably only a few times a day that you need a full rebuild unless you're messing with headers deep in the solution. As a result, your machine is normally idling while you code, then goes to 100% on all cores when you build. With Incredibuild, you utilize this fact to have all clients acting as build machines. So rather than separate hardware, it simply tells every machine in the office "Hey, build Alway's code!" And in the background throughout the day, my machine and those of everyone else will also have some of their otherwise unused compute power grabbed for useful purposes. So in an office with dozens of high end workstation machines, you end up with the equivalent of a small cluster supercomputer for everyone to run their builds on. Of those 5 minutes, probably half or more is spent on the serial linking phase (much more in Release mode, as that uses optimizations which take a much longer time to link)

So basically, free computer-magic! _{aside from software license costs}

[MaximumZero]

Now run DF on it. :p

[alway]

Now run DF on it. :p

Last I checked, that was still a serial application, as Toady didn't want to engage in the Lovecraftian art form which is multithreaded programming.

[AlleeCat]

Found a random ethernet cable at the library that lead into the floor. Plugged it into my laptop and got 11 more MB/s of download speed. It's 9.5 more than my old apartment's connection.

[IronTomato]

Planted most of the garden yesterday. Got some squash, corn, peppers, chives, and spring onions(the spinning kind). Still have to plant the pumpkins and watermelons.

Good work!
Having a vegetable garden is always a good thing.

I remember the last year that we had our vegetable garden. We eventually got rid of it because the wild turkeys wouldn't stop eating stuff. There were also these enourmous, adorable green caterpillars which were about 3 cm around, which would burrow through the softer veggies, eventually completely eating them. They did absolute hell to our tomatoes.

From then on, I swore that I would be the IronTomato, and protect the garden from the tomato-worm menace.

[Rose]

Alway, what happens if everybody compiles at once?
Also that pretty much sounds like the code version of what we had going on for rendering back at my old office, though Ours was for rendering. Yay for backburner! Though we don't have that many computers.

[GiglameshDespair]

Planted most of the garden yesterday. Got some squash, corn, peppers, chives, and spring onions(the spinning kind). Still have to plant the pumpkins and watermelons.

Good work!
Having a vegetable garden is always a good thing.

I remember the last year that we had our vegetable garden. We eventually got rid of it because the wild turkeys wouldn't stop eating stuff. There were also these enourmous, adorable green caterpillars which were about 3 cm around, which would burrow through the softer veggies, eventually completely eating them. They did absolute hell to our tomatoes.

From then on, I swore that I would be the IronTomato, and protect the garden from the tomato-worm menace.

Then you should have eaten the turkeys. Delicious vengeance.

[lemon10]

Alway, what happens if everybody compiles at once?
Also that pretty much sounds like the code version of what we had going on for rendering back at my old office, though Ours was for rendering. Yay for backburner! Though we don't have that many computers.

I imagine that if everyone compiles at once using every single computer you don't get any improvement at all.
That said, the odds of that happening at any given time seem rather low.

E: Found a few SMBC comics that I don't remember reading at all. Dey were funny.

[SalmonGod]

This is a stroke of internet genius. No, I haven't listened to even half of it, and probably never will... but it's still a stroke of genius.

[Tack]

I imagine that if everyone compiles at once using every single computer you don't get any improvement at all.

If everyone compiled on a single computer, then they'd all be able to actually punish people who choose stupid variables and write scrap code.

[Bauglir]

Exam on Wednesday. I have tomorrow off, which I will use to study. By which I mean, relax utterly, for this has been a strategy that has stood me in good stead for many years. I've been taking days for this a lot this year, which is a bit worrisome, but damn if they don't help.