# Re: \[PATCH\] ci: update 'static-analysis' to Ubuntu 22.04

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2022-08-31 19:20:02 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2022/08/7955349
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2022/08/7955349/t.md

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Jeff King [ref] writes:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 02:13:51PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> Removing coccinelle rules because we're seeing slowness somewhere seems
>> particularly short-sighted to me.
>> 
>> Maybe we do run into intractable problems somewhere with it being slow,
>> and we'd also like to cater to more "interactive" use.
>
> Agreed. I'm not wild about how long it takes to run either, but if it's
> producing useful results, it seems worth it to pay the CPU (and I think
> unused.cocci did find some useful results already). There's a point at
> which the CPU use becomes intractable, but I don't think we're there
> yet.

I am not, either, as it does not look like it is producing all that
useful results these days, but of course, we are looking at the end
result of previous clean-up triggered by these existing rules, and
therefore be biased---we only see cost of running the rules these
days without seeing anything new getting caught.
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