Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:11:55 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r228143 - in head: . share/mk tools/build/options Message-ID: <201112201311.55576.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wRFjCqUi-2gxnz%2B4Kv9LfUAOuSbeZzroaK%2Bd7Xou_XC2w@mail.gmail.com> References: <201111291946.pATJkHMs064094@svn.freebsd.org> <4EF060E7.5000204@FreeBSD.org> <CAGH67wRFjCqUi-2gxnz%2B4Kv9LfUAOuSbeZzroaK%2Bd7Xou_XC2w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 11:26:11 am Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote: > > on 20/12/2011 12:05 David Chisnall said the following: > >> On 20 Dec 2011, at 06:20, Bruce Evans wrote: > >> > >>> Don't be silly. Building profiled libraries takes as much as 1 minute. > >>> Many would not want to wait that long (if they noticed how long it takes). > >>> This is not 1994 when building of profiling libraries was left in because > >>> it only took an extra hour or or so. > >> > >> One of the platforms I use has an 800MHz ARM processor. Building LLVM (even a release build with asserts disabled and with all of the cross- compile targets disabled) is an overnight job. On my main laptop, a release build of LLVM takes about 5 minutes. > >> > >> Please don't assume that just because fast computers exist that they are the only things people are using. A lot of the more interesting platforms these days are significantly slower. > > > > I wonder if all the software that runs on the embedded stuff or mobile phones is > > built on the said hardware. > > world doesn't need to be built on the hardware, but ports still do. And the discussion here is about profiled libraries built as part of world, not about ports. :) -- John Baldwin
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