Hi Shaun,
Shaun McDonald wrote:
My 2GHz MacBook Intel Core Duo with 2GB of RAM (more RAM is important at
reducing build time) is building ooo at anywhere between just over 3
hours and 8 hours for clean builds, depending on the type of parallel
build used and what else is happening on the machine at the same time.
An un-optimised 2.66GHz Mac Pro can build in 1 hour and 20 mins. When I
was in Hamburg in December, I didn't get around to optimising the build
process with ccache to see how much speed up there is. I think that the
build time would be able to come down to under an hour (though you then
have to take into account the time to update from CVS). Even at 1 hour
20 mins, an upload of the installsets takes longer with my internet
connection.
Thanks for the information, good to know that. It seems that Linux and
Mac are at par. AFAIR the compiler on Solaris is somewhat slower but
Solaris still should be able to easily reach the same time scales
(because of typically more CPUs / cores). So, my impression is, that
building OOo today mostly depends on the hardware, while ?all? typical
platforms can reach build times around an hour.
Is there are fundamental difference between tinderboxes and buildbots?
I thought tinderboxes are kind of similar, with the difference, that
they don't need to be triggered manually.
There is another difference, a buildbot requires to be on-line as they
send the logs back live, whilst the tinderboxes send them back in a
batch. The next version of the buildbot, which is nearing completion,
will be able to do automatic rebuilding of CWSes. Another advantage of
buildbots, is that they are able to be used to get installsets, or to
build with specific build options, if requested.
OK, so I am already looking forward to the new version.
[...]
Shaun
Thanks for your help
Kay
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