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Still more software bloat (even further off topic)Still more software bloat (even further off topic)Posted Feb 28, 2008 19:36 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Still more software bloat (even further off topic) by pr1268 Parent article: Emacs news: new maintainer, version 22 pretest
Yeah, well, that explains it. Cygwin is very slow at fork()ing, and several fork()s are involved in the process of compiling a single .o. There are tens of thousands of object files in Firefox. (The sources for Firefox on my system clock in at a 'mere' 340Mb.)
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