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

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 11:26:11 am Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> world doesn't need to be built on the hardware, but ports still do.

And the discussion here is about profiled libraries built as part of world,
not about ports. :)

-- 
John Baldwin