On 11/12/2009 10:59 a.m., Pedro DeKeratry wrote:
I experience very slow GCC compilation times on win7 64bit computer as compared to a 3 yr old computer running winXP. The win7 machine has has a much newer/faster CPU and 2x the memory as the XP machine. The slowness exists on Cygwin versions 1.5.x and 1.7. I haven't figured out what the cause is much less a fix.
If your new machine is multi-core you might see some benefit if you use the parallel make option with your makefiles - this will run multiple compile steps at the same time, achieving speedup on multi-core systems.
On GNU make, for example, you can run 4 jobs at once with: make -j 4 Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
