svn commit: r228143 - in head: . share/mk tools/build/options

[David Chisnall]

On 20 Dec 2011, at 06:20, Bruce Evans wrote:

> Don't be silly.  Building profiled libraries takes as much as 1 minute.
> Many would not want to wait that long (if they noticed how long it takes).
> This is not 1994 when building of profiling libraries was left in because
> it only took an extra hour or or so.

One of the platforms I use has an 800MHz ARM processor.  Building LLVM (even a release build with asserts disabled and with all of the cross-compile targets disabled) is an overnight job.  On my main laptop, a release build of LLVM takes about 5 minutes.

Please don't assume that just because fast computers exist that they are the only things people are using.  A lot of the more interesting platforms these days are significantly slower.

David