- It wasn't worth the complexity. It was only useful when running the
python profile tool, which executes python scripts. But that tool
isn't very useful when run against normal scripts. It has been
removed too.
- The sandbox also wasn't working inside snaps, appimages,
systemd-nspawn or chroots.
- Now using python3.4 on debian, and python3.5 elsewhere.
- Added test-distributions script that checks that
install-dependencies works on different distributions.
This had stopped working.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to help anyway.
Ideally the responsiveness of the interface is the same, regardless
of whether the workers are paused or not. Atm its much better when
they are paused.
- There is less forking, once per worker process, instead of once per job.
- Nice and ionice are applied to the worker processes and hence all jobs run
by them.
- This allows jobs to benefit from caches filled by previous jobs. For example
many tools applied to a python file need to calculate if its python2 or python3.