On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > On 23/02/12 12:44, Mick wrote: >> >> On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 10:22:40 Willie WY Wong wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:22:27PM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb >> >> squawked: >>>> >>>> I compiled FF 10.0.1 on amd64 without any problems : >>>> it needed 3,61 GB disk space for the link stage >>>> & most/all of my 2 GB memory. >>> >>> >>> Argh. 3.6 diskspace and 2G memory? I guess it is finally getting to >>> the point that my laptop cannot build firefox. Time to switch to the >>> -bin I guess. >> >> >> I've only got something like 625M RAM and around 4G disk space (for >> var/portage). I used 750M from that 4G for adding swap. Eventually FF >> compiled fine. >> >> The irony is that older boxen which would benefit most from building from >> source are constrained in resources to achieve this and have to resort to >> installing bin packages. > > > I doubt that the bin package will be slower than the one compiled from > source. I predict the reverse, in fact. The bin package will perform > better.
That seems a strange prediction. What drives that hunch? -- :wq
