On Wednesday 22 May 2002 09:26 pm, Henry House wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:41:11PM -0700, Ryan wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 May 2002 06:32 pm, Ryan wrote: > > > I've never compiled it before, is it normal for mozilla to be taking > > > over 3 hours to compile? It doesn't look like it's running in a > > > loop....... > > > > D'oh, forgot to mention what CPU I have. It's a 700 celeron. > > I have heard tales that when Mozilla was first released, builds took >12 > hours. (I have not tried to compile Mozilla myself.) So I suspect no build > loop in your case. Keep in mind that compilers running on fast CPUs are > IO-bound. How fast is your hard drive? My all-SCSI system is a big help > when I compile. Mozilla is written in C++, correct? In my experience, g++ > is extremely memory-hungry. If you do not have much physical RAM, your swap > performance may be a bottleneck. YMMV, of course, and be happy that you are > compiling for an IA32 machine, not an Alpha or a PowerPC :-).
It's finaly done, after seven hours of making my computer slow and warming my CPU. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
