On Wednesday 08 October 2008 09:35:25 Heiko Wundram wrote:
> Am Wednesday 08 October 2008 06:50:47 schrieb Willie Wong:
> > I don't remember gcc-3 being such a resource hog when building. So I
> > wonder: is this the expected behaviour or is something wrong with my
> > box?
>
> Expected behaviour. >=gcc-4.2 compiles about three times longer than
> <gcc-4.2 (IIRC 4.1.2 was the last gcc that I could compile in under 30
> minutes; the current one takes about 1.5 hours), and requires loads of
> disk.
gcc is getting like ooO :-)
On a 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo notebook with 4G RAM:
* sys-devel/gcc
Sun Aug 3 20:05:36 2008 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.3.1-r1
merge time: 51 minutes and 7 seconds.
Mon Aug 4 21:54:42 2008 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.3.1-r1
merge time: 42 minutes and 19 seconds.
Mon Oct 6 10:36:58 2008 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2
merge time: 1 hour, 26 minutes and 29 seconds.
The machine is being used while those compiles are running so it takes longer
than if left alone. But the relative times are still valid.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
