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Compilation speed with GCC (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 22.06.2008, 03:16

> Another note, a real *nix will kill mingw or cygwin in speed. I sometimes
> compile cross-binutils on mingw and it takes 10-20 minutes, something that
> is sub minute on linux/freebsd.
The NASM and YASM developers cross-build the DOS releases. I can only guess that a). Windows is less aggressive re: caching (although Vista stepped it up some more), and b). GCC/GNU are very very POSIX-oriented, and Win32 has to emulate some of that since it doesn't have it natively, therefore running slower than it would be. Plus, GNU/Linux just by default seems to get every freakin' genius coder working on it (unlike closed src MS). At least we get Japheth. :-D

> It is possibly related to the rather heavy process creation time on
> Windows (and configure + the GNU system being overly fragmented into
> multiple binaries, with e.g. FPC which integrates more into one binary it
> is less pronounced)
Maybe more background crud running?? I dunno, try running "msconfig" and stop some of those dumb AcroRead, Jusched, etc. bogus speedup (i.e. slowdown) startups. Then again, you're savvier than me, so you probably knew that.

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