Joel Reymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the tip! I'm _really_ interested in why it takes 55 min on
> Linux and 3+ hours on Mac Intel, though. Any clues?
Building a compiler generally reads/touches/creates a very large number
of files. So one possibility is the relative efficiency of the OS
filesystem implementation. Apple's HFS+ is reputed to be fairly slow,
as are the Microsoft filesystems (VFAT, NTFS), at least compared to the
various unix-derived filesystems (UFS, ext2 etc).
I recall from a few years back that building nhc98 took twice as long
under Windows as under linux, on the very same machine, with the same
versions of boot-compilers. The only major variable I could think of
at the time was VFAT vs ext2.
Regards,
Malcolm
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