To clarify, links that take 3-5 minutes happen to me too. Marc-Antoine was suggesting some ideas to help make them faster, but 3-5 minutes is within the range of "there's probably nothing particularly wrong aside from Chromium being enormous".
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Marc-Antoine Ruel <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's probably a good time to upgrade your computer. > > General advices: > Using 2 hard drives definitely help. > Disable your AV for the directories where you build. Most AVs act like > jerks when linking an executable. May I add System Restore in this > category. ;) Hint: disable System Restore on your D: drive. > Defragmenting definitely help. > Having a drive with *low seek time* definitely help. > Having more memory helps. > Not using Vista helps. :) > > With the end result that linking takes a few seconds. > > M-A > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> How can I speed up building of chrome? I'm fiddling around with some >> stuff and I find it *extremely* annoying that if i change anything, I >> have to rebuild the entire chrome.dll; which takes about 3-5 minutes >> for compilation and linking. This is a real pain in the butt and I >> find it difficult to believe that this is the norm. I've setup >> everything as per the specs on the dev.chromium website (including >> installing Service Pack 1 and hotfix 935225 and 947315). Is this to be >> expected? >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
