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Re: Build times?



On Saturday 30 November 2002 09:06, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:06:25AM +0100, Bjoern Krombholz wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:53:42PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 05:12:49PM +0100, Bjoern Krombholz wrote:
> > >
> > > i'm not impressed ... the debian build does everything four times, so
> > > you're not even 2.5 times as fast. :-P
> >
> > Hmm? I'm not shure i got it right - 4 times? Why?
>
> (static, dynamic) x (nothread, thread)
> i didn't study the rules file in detail, but i think it needs to rebuild
> the complete lib every time. ok, the factor 4 is seriously skewed by
> executables (qmake, moc, designer, ...) being built only once - so
> maybe it's only 3. 3.3 times as fast does not impress me, either. :)

I think that with a little Makefile juggling it should be possible to half the 
time taken. IMHO the difference between static/shared is only in the final 
linking stage.

Alex.



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