On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Thomas Weber wrote:
> the current Octaviz packages build around 1000 object files from C++
> code. This takes about an hour on my 3GHz machine and I think you know
> better than I what that means for m68k buildds.
>
> Now, I would like to change the build system such that the .cc files are
> concatenated and only about 10 object files are built. On my current
> system, this halves the build time. The problem is that memory
> requirements go through the roof (I think you need more than 500 MB
> Ram).
>
> So, the question is simple: would this change help you or actually make
> things worse for smaller buildds?
IMHO it will make things worse. Time is infinite, RAM is finite (it can be
traded off by swap, i.e. time again, though).
BTW, can't you speed up builds on machines with lots of memory by using
`make -j N'?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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