[TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie!
Chris Torek
torek at torek.net
Sat Sep 16 06:34:34 AEST 2017
>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.
Common thread: LLVM is written in C++.
(Also, at some point during compilation, at least some versions
grow quite big, using 20 GB of RAM or whatever. And C++ is hard
on the linkers as well...)
Chris
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