Does anyone know roughly how long it takes to build LyX on a machine with
one of these processors:
* Core 2 Duo E4300
* AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+
* AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400 (or BE-2350)
The reason for my strange question is that I'm going to buy a server to
have at home, and I'm using LyX development as my personal motivation for
getting hardware that's more powerful than I really need... The server
will act as my PVR, personal wiki, file server etc, but in addition I'm
going to use it for LyX development. Compiling LyX will the most heavy
task of the server.
Actually, my plan is to install one or more virtual machines in it and
then do LyX compilations there - so the next time Andre' breaks the build
process, I'll give him an account and he can look at the problem directly.
So, going back to my original question, does anyone have an estimate of
the build time with these?
A somewhat related question: Is a quad core an advantage when it comes to
building LyX? Is the linking stage multi-threaded?
As a side note, the server will be running 24/7, so to be environmentally
friendly my favourite choice is the BE-2400, as it at most consumes 45W,
and an idle server would only use about 60W. The question is if it's fast
enough when it comes to building LyX.
Regards,
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
