[TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie!
Lyndon Nerenberg
lyndon at orthanc.ca
Sat Sep 16 05:50:13 AEST 2017
> In the spirit of complaining about compile times :-) ... I like to
> build my freebsd ports tree from source. Every time webkit2 needs
> an update, my box (which I admit is no longer super-fast, but is
> not exactly slow either) takes well over three hours to grind
> through it, using all eight cores. (I never timed it, I always
> just left it to its own devices after a while.)
Forget ports! /usr/src is bad enough. Running buildworld, it takes
longer to build the flippin' compilers (llvm) than it does to build the
entire rest of the OS. This is not progress.
--lyndon
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