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Date:      Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:26:11 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r228143 - in head: . share/mk tools/build/options
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@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. =A0Building profiled libraries takes as much as 1 minut=
e.
>>> Many would not want to wait that long (if they noticed how long it take=
s).
>>> This is not 1994 when building of profiling libraries was left in becau=
se
>>> it only took an extra hour or or so.
>>
>> One of the platforms I use has an 800MHz ARM processor. =A0Building LLVM=
 (even a release build with asserts disabled and with all of the cross-comp=
ile targets disabled) is an overnight job. =A0On 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. =A0A lot of the more interesting platfor=
ms these days are significantly slower.
>
> I wonder if all the software that runs on the embedded stuff or mobile ph=
ones is
> built on the said hardware.

world doesn't need to be built on the hardware, but ports still do.
Thanks,
-Garrett



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