Neil wrote: > Michael Vincent van Rantwijk wrote: > >> Neil wrote: >> >>> Michael Vincent van Rantwijk wrote: >>> >>>> My father did it in 18 minutes, but I only have an Intel CoreDuo2 >>>> equipped notebook available >>> >>> The big killer is debug gklayout.dll - even on modern hardware (P4 >>> 3G, 512MB RAM) it takes over 10 minutes, but on crappy hardware (PIII >>> 733, 384MB RAM) you can link optimised gklayout in half the time. >> >> Is that the time it takes to compile gklayout.dll or everything? > > Just gklayout.dll; I checked on a third machine (PIII 866, 512MB RAM) > and it links debug gklayout in 7 minutes and compiles depend in 56 > minutes (note that depend is quite slow on Windows; when it was still > supported my Linux P4 1.2, 512MB RAM compiled depend in under half an > hour including checkout).
Will lots of RAM help? I mean what is usually the bottleneck for compilers? HD, RAM, OS? _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
