On 10/21/2017 3:26 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 13:29:43, cyg Simple wrote: >> Changing the default does improve the speed of configure because >> configure no longer needs to execute GCC to figure out where the build >> files are. Yes the time saved is small but time is expensive so any >> saving is a big deal, especially with such a small change. > > I would argue that the difference you are talking about is less than 5 > seconds.
5 sec * 2300 packages = 11,500 sec 11,500 sec is 3.19 hours > Which in a build like FFmpeg or similar, is statistically 0. > 1 package once in a while doesn't matter. > So perhaps you have some data to show a non-trivial amount of time saved > that > would make this worth it? 3.19 hours * many builds is equal to days and weeks. The 5 sec is your guess, probably less but ... Minutia ends up being quite a large sum when you repeat a process over and over. The 2300 packages is a round of the number of packages Yaakov supports. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
