On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Thomas Weber wrote: > > the current Octaviz packages build around 1000 object files from C++ > > code. This takes about an hour on my 3GHz machine and I think you know > > better than I what that means for m68k buildds. > > > > Now, I would like to change the build system such that the .cc files are > > concatenated and only about 10 object files are built. On my current > > system, this halves the build time. The problem is that memory > > requirements go through the roof (I think you need more than 500 MB > > Ram). > > > > So, the question is simple: would this change help you or actually make > > things worse for smaller buildds? > > IMHO it will make things worse. Time is infinite, RAM is finite (it can be > traded off by swap, i.e. time again, though). > > BTW, can't you speed up builds on machines with lots of memory by using > `make -j N'?
Silly question perhaps, but why would anyone want Octaviz on m68k? :) I assume it is http://octaviz.sourceforge.net/ ? -- kolla -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
