Re: [GD-General] Compile times

[Javier A. <ja...@py...>]

Brian Hook <bri...@py...> wrote:
>> On macosx, compile for the same code takes about 45 minutes.
>> On linux, about 30 for a full rebuild.
>
> That seems...weird.  Granted, these are different machines, but in my
> experience VC hasn't been that much faster unless you're heavily
> leveraging incremental linking and precompiled headers.

For what is worth, during the tentative (and aborted) Mac port of Commandos
2, they started a Debug build of the game on the mac (note - it's a HUGE
codebase, the Win32 retail exe was 8 megs IIRC), and two days later it still
had not finished. Can't give details about machine, RAM, etc, but frankly,
it was scary. And no, it wasn't using STL.

  Javier Arevalo
  Pyro Studios