On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 11:26:11 am Garrett Cooper wrote: > 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.
And the discussion here is about profiled libraries built as part of world, not about ports. :) -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ 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"
