It's been compiling for two days straight...
It's been compiling for two days straight...
For the curious ones the machine is a 2001 IBM Thinkpad T22 with 20Gb of HDD, 256 Mb of RAM and an Intel Pentium 3 @ 900MHz.
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Serious question, how long will it take to compile the whole thing if you had a ryzen 9 maxed out or an Intel i9 or whatevet those crazy CPUs are with all top specs PC?
I have a laptop with a Ryzen 4700u and gentoo with KDE compiles in a virtual machine in like 2 hours iirc
My IBM took 1h30m to compile vim.... (:
Is there a particular reason why you prefer Gentoo over other distros? Can't you run a conventional distro that doesn't need to compile? Just curious, no judgement. I know that Marcan, the dude who reverse engineered the apple M1, runs Gentoo. Always been curious as to why some folks prefer it
I dont use gentoo, I was just messing around with it out of curiosity
I'm running gentoo on an i9 13th gen. Regular updates don't take long at all. I'm not really sure how long it would take to build the whole thing. I've never build the whole repo.Build times can vary greatly depending on how you build the package. Chromium and qtwebkit are by far the slowest packages to build. But I have lto and pgo enabled, the lto step is pretty slow and pgo causes the software to be built twice and as a joked about in my other comment, building chromium with all 32 CPU cores will eat up all 32G of ram and get OOM killed, so I build that with -j 10. so that's not helping build time. I'll get more ram eventually.
So the joke doesn't run on your build then. lol