Re: Technical Excellence?

From: Rainer Deyke (rdeyke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-04-02 16:05:38

On 01.04.24 23:28, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 5:38 PM Andrey Semashev via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>> This would be a massive privacy breach, if it works. If this ever comes
>> to reality, please announce it on this list so that I never use those
>> libraries.
>>
> 
> Some of our engineers doing pure analytical C++ research have taken note
> that while compilation is inherently parallel when there are multiple TUs,
> the linking stage is not. In effect the linker is single threaded. To help
> compensate developers for having their anonymized compilation usage
> statistics uploaded into the cloud, we are developing a client-side
> cryptocurrency mining service which utilizes those additional, idle CPUs
> during the linker stage to solve proof-of-work for popular blockchains. I
> was thinking a 50/50 split on profits.

April fools?  Much less funny now that I am reading it on the 2nd.

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Rainer Deyke (rainerd_at_[hidden])