New tinderbox.
Ian Romanick
idr at us.ibm.com
Thu Feb 28 10:11:31 PST 2008
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Chris Ball wrote:
| ¹: Which is odd, because that machine is a Niagara T1 with 32 cores;
| looking at the time taken for each stage, the reason that it's
| slower than an average x86 box seems to be that configure doesn't
| parallelize at all, and each core individually is quite slow. Once
| it actually gets into compiling with make -j64, it's very fast.
| Configure-time dominates compile-time, though.
This is a known issue, and it is one of the reason many developers hate
the Xorg autoconf madness. There doesn't seem to be a good solution,
though.
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