On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 14:44 +0200, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
On 01-08-11 13:55, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 12:03 +0200, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
What kind of build times do you get when doing a complete clean build? And on what kind of machine?
Currently I'm only working on a notebook (three years old, and lets just say I bought it for the daylight readable screen and light weight, not its performance) and frankly this is starting to be a nuisance. Usually a complete build takes about six hours or so, but recently it took as much as ten hours... (Probably because part of the time I was also doing something on the side, but still.) As a stop gap measure I've now started using ccache, but obviously that doesn't help much when doing normal builds.
I went from a 6.5 year old notebook... build times about an hour... to a 4 core (8 threads) Sandy Bridge laptop with Sata III SSD. It takes about 6.5 minutes to do a complete build. Life is good.
Thanks for all the replies, it looks like there are some definite gains to be had :) Not the least of which is to parallelize the build process. I think I'll go shopping. (BTW, Tav, what sandy bridge processor do you have?)
i7-2720QM
I am also using Linux.