On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 1:49:16 PM UTC-7, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 9/22/2015 9:35 AM, Robin Becker wrote: > > On 22/09/2015 11:14, Robin Becker wrote: > >> On 22/09/2015 01:36, CG wrote: > > .........t > >>> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24872#msg249589>. > >>> > >> Thanks for the pointer Christoph. > >> > >> I certainly didn't let it run for 30 minutes. When I build with 2.7, > >> 3.3 or 3.4 > >> the whole build including reportlab stuff is over in a couple of > >> minutes. I will > >> try again, but a linker that takes 30 minutes to create an extension > >> that ends > >> up 204Kb long has to be seriously broken. Is it trying to hard? Most > >> of the code > >> size is in arrays for code points etc etc. > > > > I timed my builds of pyRXPU for x86 + amd64; these are on a core i5-3470 > > @ 3.20Ghz with 4Gb memory. > > > > python 3.4 1 minute 14 seconds > > python 3.5 52 minutes 50 seconds > > > > so with VS2015 it will now take me an hour to make and test any changes > > to this extension. I don't see how the issue can be considered closed. > > VS2015 is clearly not the way forward for any reasonable development > > process. > > I think you should add the above to the issue. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy
It's a compiler bug. To work around, disable compiler optimizations, i.e. set `extra_compile_args=['/Od']` in setup.py. -- Christoph -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
