Walking ghost

Posted Sep 7, 2016 12:30 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Walking ghost by FLHerne
Parent article: Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice

That build time probably the time of the ARM architectures which are much slower. The x86_64 builds took less than 5 hours.

Walking ghost

Posted Sep 7, 2016 12:48 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, definitely. On my distinctly aged previous-decade 2GHz machines (with fairly fast spinning-rust disks and enough RAM to cache everything) a build takes about three.

Walking ghost

Posted Sep 7, 2016 12:58 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

If AOO does take 47 hours to build, imagine gaining an entire week's worth of time in your build cycle. Insane to think certain people were "build system work is worthless" when so much time could be saved with such work.