On 5 Mar 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> |
> | > > It only takes 3 or so hours for a full build with 2.91.66 (much faster
> | > > than 2.95.2 and infinitely faster than gcc CVS of a acouple of months
> | > > ago), on a P200 with 40Mb of memory.
> | >
> | > So memory is the thing that really matters... as I mentioned it took me
> | > 82 minutes with 2.95.2 on a P133 with 48 MB... Unfortunately, it does not
> | > scale very well above a certain level ;-}
> |
> | I recommend using 2.91.66 instead, it is a lot less heavy on memory usage.
>
> And the C++ compiler is way behind...
>
> I prefere gcc 3.0, but usually use 2.96.
>
> Lgb
>
Well in an ideal world, but this version is literally unusable on a low memory machine
when compiling LyX. As in, left-for-a-day-compiling-lyxfunc.C unusable.
Hopefully the work they are doing now will sort it out to the only moderately
slower 2.95.2 performance
john
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