Paul Rubin wrote: > Anyone got any suggestions? How do you deal with this? It could be > mitigated with a faster computer (I'm using a 1.2 ghz Pentium M) but > the overall task isn't large enough to justify going out and buying > one. Anyway, I did the same build on a 2 ghz Athlon 64 and was > surprised that the speedup was only 35% or so. I'd have to get a > multiprocessor box to obtain really substantial gains.
Sounds like a typical time/money tradeoff to me. How much is your time worth to you on this project? If you can reduce the delay by 50%, and do it 10 times, you could well pay for a new Core 2 Duo machine. As an alternative, do you have multiple machines you could use? Perhaps you could use distributed compilation. Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list