Apparently, though unproven, at 21:27 on Monday 23 August 2010, Al did opine thusly:
> Some thoughts of the day > > With multicore machines compilation itself is relativly fast. The > bigger part of time meanwhile is spend for the system check before > compilation. Each program das it again and 90% of the checks check > the same stuff. > > I wounder if efforts have been made to reduce this repeated checks. > > Al cmake. It really does decrease the amount of time in the configure step - witness KDE4. Then promptly causes a huge rash of other problems elsewhere. It's software, what were you expecting? That it should actually work? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
