On 8/20/2025 1:26 AM, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> Hi
> 
> It seems the forgejo CI takes about
> 13min to do fate on aarch64 and x86-64 and build on win64
> 
> Locally i run
>      fate + install on x86-64
>      build on x86-32, mingw64, arm32, mips, ppc, x86-64 + shared libs
>      testprogs alltools examples build on x86-64, x86-32 and arm32
>      in 2min 44sec
> 
> can we improve the speed vs amount of tests ratio ?
> (its not a problem ATM, i did in fact not even notice as i never waited on it)
> 
> Iam just seeing the difference in time and i think there is potential for
> optimization here
> 
> I dont think my box here is really special, just a
> AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core + Samsung SSD 970 PRO

Well, the test runners are 4 cores and 8GB of RAM. So that'll be the 
primary difference in speed.
I think they're performing pretty good for being just that.

We could of course throw money at the problem and turn them into 16 core 
machines. That would up the hosting cost of the runners from currently 
3*7.5€ a month to 3*30€ a month. Just for the runners.

imo the current CI turnaround times are fine. 15-20 minutes per job is 
fine, as long as they can all run in parallel.