Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:18:15 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r228143 - in head: . share/mk tools/build/options Message-ID: <4EF060E7.5000204@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <8CCE4DDE-B203-42FF-A2FA-9106403DE077@FreeBSD.org> References: <201111291946.pATJkHMs064094@svn.freebsd.org> <4ED544E1.3050307@t-hosting.hu> <4ED545A9.8000304@FreeBSD.org> <CAGH67wSn-kGhtW-qVwwEVvmmu076ncAqMXx=42PnWwb3a4cCbg@mail.gmail.com> <0CAA5754-4FAC-4B87-92B7-439B109473C0@bsdimp.com> <20111220171740.X1005@besplex.bde.org> <8CCE4DDE-B203-42FF-A2FA-9106403DE077@FreeBSD.org>
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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
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