From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:35:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008232135.06240.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinLJL26S6swU8a++coYSwidFmrsD+cW=9342N0E@mail.gmail.com>
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:27 on Monday 23 August 2010, Al did opine
thusly:
> Some thoughts of the day
>
> With multicore machines compilation itself is relativly fast. The
> bigger part of time meanwhile is spend for the system check before
> compilation. Each program das it again and 90% of the checks check
> the same stuff.
>
> I wounder if efforts have been made to reduce this repeated checks.
>
> Al
cmake.
It really does decrease the amount of time in the configure step - witness
KDE4.
Then promptly causes a huge rash of other problems elsewhere.
It's software, what were you expecting? That it should actually work?
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-23 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-23 19:27 [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings Al
2010-08-23 19:35 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-08-23 20:07 ` Al
2010-08-23 20:04 ` Paul Hartman
2010-08-28 8:47 ` Al
2010-08-28 10:59 ` Alex Schuster
2010-08-28 11:13 ` Al
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