Jerome Quelin wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote:
That'd be about three to four for the CPU you've got, and when you
throw in swapping I can see the compile time for that module hitting
15-20 minutes.
At least. FYI, I ran into the same problem some months ago. I had 128 Mb on my P4 1.3GHz Linux box. The total compile time was about 40 minutes because of swapping.
I added 256 Mb RAM and I now compile parrot in less than 5 minutes.
Hi.
Newer GCC releases are _much_ better at compiling this file than older releases. GCC-3.3 is better than GCC-3.2, GCC-3.4 is better than GCC-3.3, but best of all is GCC-3.5, as it compiles this file in usually less than 5 minutes and requires the least memory of all. I'm building on a 200 MHz Pentium - no joke - so the latest GCC has been a trememdous improvement.
Even though GCC has been getting slower for compiling other code, when building Parrot, and in particular the core_ops_cg.c file, GCC has been getting much, much better.
Art Haas
Thanks for your tips, all! I just had to be patient with the old computer. It compiles now (eventually)
Klaas-Jan
