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Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2014-02-05T04:00:30Z
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  1. MinGW: Link with shell32.dll instead of shfolder.dll.

  2. Centralize getopt-related declarations in a new header file pg_getopt.h.

  3. Get rid of use of dlltool in Mingw builds.

  4. Export a few more symbols required for test_shm_mq module.

  5. Export set_latch_on_sigusr1 symbol for Windows.

  6. Use SHGetFolderPath instead of SHGetSpecialFolderPath to find the

On 02/04/2014 10:48 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 02/05/2014 04:08 AM, Jeff Janes wrote:
>>   So doing a git bisect is just painful.  Is the MSVC
>> build faster?
> Yes, but not on EC2.
>
> I've found Windows EC2 instances so impossibly slow I just gave up
> working with it. It took 1.5 hours to do a build and regression check
> with msvc on a Medium EC2 instance; the same build takes 10 mins on my
> tiny Intel i3 based Windows test machine.
>
> It's possible that some of the larger instance types may perform better
> as they use different approaches to virtualization than simple Xen HVM.
> I haven't tested, as the cost of those instances rapidly becomes
> problematic.
>


I typically use m1.medium. A spot instance for that is currently $0.033 
/ hour. When I was working on one such the other day it took nothing 
like 1.5 hours to build and test. I didn't time it so I can't tell you 
how long it took, but much less than that. Of course YMMV.

cheers

andrew