Re: Build times?

[Bjoern Krombholz <bjkro@gmx.de>]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:12:05AM +0100, Michael Schuerig wrote:
> 
> As I wrote earlier, I consider building my own KDE packages (possibly 
> from CVS) with debugging enabled. I just tried this on qt-copy and this 
> is what "time" said of the effort:
> 
> real    487m1.732s
> user    401m35.620s
> sys     12m42.350s
> 
> (450 MHz Celeron 2, 640MB RAM, Kernel 2.4.19, gcc 2.9.5)

# ./configure -qt-gif -cups -debug

[...]

# time make

[...]

real    50m27.796s
user    47m5.190s
sys     1m24.060s

(AthlonXP 1600+, 512MB DDR, 2.4.19, gcc 2.95)


Compiling C++ stuff takes much longer than plain C because of the
preprocessing and even longer on QT based code where another preprocessing
stage (moc) is needed.


Björn