Paul, FWIW, I'm using MSVC too (VS 2005) and while I didn't make any speed comparisons, the new make system appears faster. Additionaly the older system was forcing me to manually delete files to force a rebuild - f.e. every time I made any modification to ppcore.c I'd have to delete ppcore.obj, and harbour.exe to force a rebuild. Similar issues every time I touched harbour.sly, and/or harbour.slx. You might remebber I reported this long ago and you promised to take a look.
IMO, even if the new make system would be slower, between the resolution of long standing problems as above, to the centralization and unification of all make files, it's a minor cost to pay. FWIW, I suppose the speed issue must be related to using a NW drive, which I don't use. Ron On May 31, 2008, at 7:18 PM, Paul Tucker wrote: > > RP> Do you have any specifics on why would compile time be slower? My > RP> experience has been the opposite - I think this new make > system is a > RP> great improvement. > > I'm using MSVC. > > I'll not argue the fact that the original system left something to be > desired, but I can't see how your experience can be possible. > > Generally speaking, with the previous system, all c files for a lib > were > compiled with the same invocation of cl (sure there are exeptions > to that) - > with this system, it's all done 1 file at a time. > > I have a 750gig raid 0 drive which gives decent throughput and I > can set up > an e:drive by either using subst e: c:\drives\edrive or share that > location > as 'edrive' and net use e: \\paul\edrive. (my development drive is > e:) > > When set up as a network share, speed drops because (I guess), the > cacheing > no longer works the same as it does for a 'real' drive. > > subst network > old makallvc clean/makallvc: 8min 45min > new make_vc clean: 13min 75min > > The 'old' system is from may 26 2007 and certainly could be > improved upon by > at least correcting the way the dll is built. > > Paul > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > xHarbour-developers mailing list > xHarbour-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xharbour-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ xHarbour-developers mailing list xHarbour-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xharbour-developers
