Re: Have we become too Intel x64 centered?

From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-01-23 17:15:02

On 23/01/2021 15:47, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> John Maddock wrote:
>
>> I have no solution for this, but I note that neither do we have CI, 
>> nor tests on 
>> https://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/summary.html 
>> that aren't Intel x86.
>
> Travis has support for ARM64, ppc64le, s390x. Of those, only the last 
> one is big-endian.
>
> See e.g. the first four entries of 
> https://travis-ci.org/github/boostorg/endian/builds/750954473.

Thanks Peter, I confess I hadn't realized they'd expanded to these other 
architectures.

Longer term, I confess I could never see how Travis or the other free 
providers could afford to do what they're doing and not be overwhelmed.

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