-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 08:31:23AM +0100, Jan Synáček wrote: > Hello, > > while building guile-2.1.4 for Fedora, I noticed that the compilation > got *really* slow. I didn't measure it precisely, but as can be seen > from [1] (about 20 minutes) and [2] (about 100 minutes with make check > disabled), the time difference between the builds is roughly 80 > minutes... Release notes mention that the VM has been rewritten and > the source is now compiled into ELF, but is it supposed to be this > slow?
Are you building from scratch? Because then yes, 2.1.x is expected to bootstrap slowly [1]. The solution offered ATM is delivering a half-bootstrapped system [2]. TL;DR the compiler has become much smarter, but also tougher to build (but read the refs anyway: they're a worthy read). regards [1] https://wingolog.org/archives/2016/01/11/the-half-strap-self-hosting-and-guile [2] https://wingolog.org/archives/2016/02/04/guile-compiler-tasks - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlg3+BQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kb1rgCdEfvVwjdh1Ap/DnWzLoNUc/9q w2cAnjGohbe3VzBN3gdjzzJpy2uekkqH =ET1E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
