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.

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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