On 2005-03-03 11:01:29 -0400 (Thu, Mar), Arran Fraser wrote: > > So is the heavy mem usage only during compilation, or do the compilation > speedups result in programs that use lots of memory?
AFAIK it affect only compilation time. Last time I was using it, heavy mem usage was not noticeable for me having 512 RAM. I was happily working in KDE during compilation. The compilation time reduction was impressing: * kde-base/kdeedu Thu Jul 29 23:46:39 2004 >>> kde-base/kdeedu-3.2.3 merge time: 1 hour, 4 minutes and 18 seconds. Sun Sep 12 22:19:18 2004 >>> kde-base/kdeedu-3.3.0 merge time: 1 hour, 35 minutes and 32 seconds. Fri Nov 12 06:01:36 2004 >>> kde-base/kdeedu-3.3.1 merge time: 1 hour, 43 minutes and 41 seconds. Mon Jan 3 02:35:19 2005 >>> kde-base/kdeedu-3.3.2 merge time: 4 hours, 9 minutes and 4 seconds. Mon Feb 21 01:57:37 2005 >>> kde-base/kdeedu-3.3.2-r1 merge time: 39 minutes and 37 seconds. -- $ ls -lart /bin/ls: you must be root to use LART
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