On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Andriy Gapon <a...@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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.
world doesn't need to be built on the hardware, but ports still do. Thanks, -Garrett _______________________________________________ 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"
