On 07/12/2016 20:37, TCW wrote: > On 12/7/2016 1:04 PM, Mason83 wrote: >> On 07/12/2016 19:04, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: >> >>> If you have a working build environment save yourself the trouble and >>> just build from comm-release. 2.47 is stable but requires VS2015 Update 3. >>> >>> Full build will take around 3h to 5h on my Thinkpad X200s and 30 to 40 >>> minutes on my desktop. Both in a vm. Native sure is faster. >> >> Why would build be much faster native vs in a VM? >> >> It's mostly user-space integer code and storage access. > > Virtual Machine = Virtual Performance
Well, I'm no expert on virtualization, but on modern solutions, user-space code runs at native speed (directly on bare metal). Only privileged instructions actually require special handling. And of course, device access as well. I suppose compiling a large project like Firefox/Seamonkey may require many storage accesses. One way to test would be to store the whole source code on a RAM drive :-) Regards. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
