svn commit: r228143 - in head: . share/mk tools/build/options
Andriy Gapon
avg at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 20 10:18:19 UTC 2011
on 20/12/2011 12:05 David Chisnall said the following:
> 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.
I wonder if all the software that runs on the embedded stuff or mobile phones is
built on the said hardware.
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Andriy Gapon
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