on 20/12/2011 12:05 David Chisnall said the following: > On 20 Dec 2011, at 06:20, Bruce Evans wrote: > >> Don't be silly. Building profiled libraries takes as much as 1 minute. >> Many would not want to wait that long (if they noticed how long it takes). >> This is not 1994 when building of profiling libraries was left in because >> it only took an extra hour or or so. > > One of the platforms I use has an 800MHz ARM processor. Building LLVM (even > a release build with asserts disabled and with all of the cross-compile > targets disabled) is an overnight job. On my main laptop, a release build of > LLVM takes about 5 minutes. > > Please don't assume that just because fast computers exist that they are the > only things people are using. A lot of the more interesting platforms these > days are significantly slower.
I wonder if all the software that runs on the embedded stuff or mobile phones is built on the said hardware. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
