shared cache meeting 20201104

Present at the meeting:

• Andrey Mokhov (@snowleopard)
• Arseniy Alekseyev (@aalekseyev)
• Jérémie Dimino (@jeremiedimino)
• Quentin Hocquet (@mefyl)

Discussed

• Andrey proposed a new solution where the distributed server ask the cache daemon for the individual artifacts.
• This approach will enable the use of Pipe RPC to avoid loading files in memory.
• Quentin will perform benches on the js universe, including peak memory usage.
• We may have to imitate Jenga to make things more reproducible, such as changing the ar command in the PATH.