On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 08:47:13 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On my i7 machine with 16g of ram, webkit-gtk has got to take 4/5 hours > > to compile. This is using an ssd. > > That vindicates my choice of an NVMe SSD for this box, which is also an > i7 but with 32GB. Genlop shows it takes between 23 and 50 minutes here, > depending on what else I'm doing I suppose. What a difference a direct > connection makes!
There's more then the SSD to this. I get a similar result on my AMD9590 box with an NVMe SSD, but my i5 laptop with 8GB and a SATA SSD takes "only" around 2-3 hours, on a system that should be significantly slower than John's. -- Neil Bothwick Code: (n.) a means of concealing bugs favored by programmers. (v.) the process of concealing bugs by programming.
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