On Monday 26 March 2001  4:16 am, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> Hubert Feyrer wrote
>
> > this timing is on a ~500MHz Laptop running 1.5/i386:

500MHz what? PIII?  celeron?  The times are much lower than on my PII 333, 
base is a good 3-4 hours (or maybe it just seemed that long)  And I dread to 
think what it'd be on my arm32 box :)

> > kdelibs2 - 2h
> > kdebase2 - 3h
> > kdeutils2 - 0.5h
> > kdenetwork2 - 1h
> > kdegraphics2 - 0.5h
> > kdegames2 - 0.75h
> > kdemultimedia2 - 1.25h
> > kdetoys2 - 0.25h
> > kdepim2 - 0.5h
> > kdeadmin2 - 0.5h
> >
> > sum - 10.25h (NOT including qt2 X-)
> >
> >
> > I don't think it needs further comments...

That's a comment just asking for trouble :)

> Hey, this doesn't include built of qt2 and all other dependencies
> that are required on 'make update' in kde2...
>
> It took me from lunch to after midnight to convert from kde1 to kde2
> Welcome to the new generation of unix bloatware :)

I believe part of the slowness is from the fact that egcs isn't the fastest 
of compilers with C++.  I'm not sure if gcc 2.95.2 is any faster though, I'd 
expect gcc 3 to be as there has been commits (or they had them as news on the 
gcc web page) to help speedup c++ compiling (and also to reduce it's memory 
overhead)

Cheers,
Chris