From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:56:05 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! In-Reply-To: References: <201709151901.v8FJ17Z2025666@elf.torek.net> Message-ID: huh. Time to build all of plan 9 -- libraries, commands, windowing system, all kernels -- was always a few minutes. It was really annoying -- people just assumed there was not much capability there because it took less time to build than to run an autoconf on GNU tools :-) I wonder what Ken was doing wrong? (fwiw, the Ken C compilers were a wonder -- they did not link against the C library, they just made the system calls directly, malloc was defined to brk(), and there was no free() -- and the code is tiny) It's nice to see the kenc spirit still alive in the Go toolchain -- although that makes sense, since the up through 1.4 or so the go toolchain was derived from ken c :-) ron On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:50 PM Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > 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 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: