On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 03:57:02 -0500,
Neil Bothwick wrote:
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> On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 08:47:13 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
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> > > 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.
Well, one other thing, I always do -j1 for the make options, too many
times things don't work right if I try higher numbers.
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