[bug#69581] [PATCH 07/11] gnu: rust: Add tuning information.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 10:38:06PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

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>> Then it should be declared in a module that’s not in a cycle with its
>> users (that’s annoying!).  Maybe a separate ‘llvm-meta.scm’?
>
> How about moving it into (guix cpu) together with the ones from gcc?
> There are apparently some CPUs that are identical but have different
> names that we could map together and would allow us to make any changes
> to them in one place.  We've already pretty much done that with the
> search paths.

To me, the whole point of the ‘compiler-cpu-architectures’ property is
that this info can be stored in the compiler package itself rather than
in some remote unrelated place (the same goes for search paths).  My
instinct would be to preserve that, hence the suggestion of a new (gnu
packages llvm-meta) or (… llvm-infra) module, something like that.

We should also keep in mind that those CPU names are those defined by
compilers themselves; they don’t have to match the vendor-chosen name or
the name chosen by some other compiler.

WDYT?  Does that make sense?

Ludo’.