So, after our chat earlier, I've just gone back through my email history on build-times and found a sea of information that really closely matches everything the team mentioned today. Anyway, enough whinging, on with the data:
Here are my build-timings from back when Kaarlo and I were evaluating the benefit of getting every dev machine a SSD. These are NUKE build times from my Linux machine (the one I still have), using both spindle and an SSD, from just after we brought in the 1st pass of the RIP code (judging by my email history). I don't have equivalent timing for windows because I didn't have time to test the build-times scientifically (well I did, but the variance was/is much higher on windows so I needed more runs and my scripts failed during the one weekend I had to run them). However, not that that's useful in this context, I do have equivalent results for the Core/Curve module on Windows. The data just shows that there is/was only minor benefit of SSDs over spindle HDDs for builds, but checkouts/syncs are significantly faster with SSDs. The Core/Curve tests also showed that release builds are *much* slower. If memory serves builds on Windows at that time were roughly twice as slow and, in general Linux was faster than Mac (now Mac is fastest). Full builds on mac take something like 40+ minutes in debug and 1.5 hours or more in release/inst. Note that these graphs doesn't show the data for 3.5 minute full-builds that I mentioned today, as this investigation was done in reaction to the introduction of the RIP code. For a full build, at this time, it was actually just over 12 mins. Each bar-grouping shows a run, so you can get an *indication* of the std-dev. It looks like I didn't do release-tests on Linux for some reason - I probably had work to do. Frank Russel Grant Harrison. -- Frank Harrison Senior Nuke Software Engineer The Foundry Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 6828 - Fax: +44 (0)20 7930 8906 Web: www.thefoundry.co.uk Email: frank.harri...@thefoundry.co.uk
_______________________________________________ Nuke-dev mailing list Nuke-dev@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-dev
