We can mitigate that by having several people running the reports. I've written some docs, so it shouldn't be too hard, although right now it does require a *nix-like system. I've been running them on a Windows host using a VirtualBox virtual Ubuntu system, and have found it to be easy.
i wonder: has anyone ever tried to integrate the boost regression tests with a cross-compiler and/or qemu? some years ago, i've tested some altivec/neon code on x86_64 hardware by running my redirecting ctest to call the binaries via qemu. this would have two advantages: * being able to test some architectures without having the hardware * not having to compile natively on slow hardware also it would be wonderful to be able to have testers for ios and android. would be nice if apple or google could provide the infrastructure for this ... one can dream ...