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by rubymaverick 4793 days ago
That's a really cool project! Definitely going to look into it for some of our more complicated courses, but for this course compilation is usually under a half-second so it's not the compilation that's slow (it's the way we are tearing down an entire VM after every submission, we are working on changing that now)
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rwl4 4793 days ago
Ah. Maybe consider a FreeBSD jail with a union mounted filesystem if you can get away with using a non-Apple (GNUstep/GCC?) toolchain. The teardown on a jail is as fast as the chroot syscall. ;-)

Or even better, use ZFS snapshots as your sandbox. Copy on write kicks butt. See: http://vocalbit.com/article/402/freebsd-jails-using-zfs-and-...

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nglevin 4793 days ago
Just one nitpick for an excellent comment. GNUstep/Clang would be the only way to get support for array, dictionary and number literals, as well as ARC.

GNUstep/GCC is possible, but you lose support for all of the above, blocks, and several other recent additions to the Objective-C language.

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rubymaverick 4793 days ago
Very true. We really leaned heavily on the new literals and ARC in this course.
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