On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 9:36 AM, <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 08:31:23AM +0100, Jan Synáček wrote: >> Hello, >> >> while building guile-2.1.4 for Fedora, I noticed that the compilation >> got *really* slow. I didn't measure it precisely, but as can be seen >> from [1] (about 20 minutes) and [2] (about 100 minutes with make check >> disabled), the time difference between the builds is roughly 80 >> minutes... Release notes mention that the VM has been rewritten and >> the source is now compiled into ELF, but is it supposed to be this >> slow? > > Are you building from scratch? Because then yes, 2.1.x is expected > to bootstrap slowly [1]. The solution offered ATM is delivering a > half-bootstrapped system [2].
Yes, but even a small (about 3 modules and a few 100s LoC) project of mine compiles about 3 times slower. > TL;DR the compiler has become much smarter, but also tougher to > build (but read the refs anyway: they're a worthy read). > > regards > > [1] > https://wingolog.org/archives/2016/01/11/the-half-strap-self-hosting-and-guile > [2] https://wingolog.org/archives/2016/02/04/guile-compiler-tasks Thank you, I wasn't aware of these. Good to know that it's not a bug. Cheers, -- Jan Synáček
