i love freebsd and their shenanigans. i sucks as a desktop OS but they are a thorn in the side of gnu-zealots.
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Clang'ed FreeBSD: Builds Quicker, Uses Way Less RAM
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Originally posted by Awesomeness View PostUnder FreeBSD installing software from the ports tree means compiling it (guess where Gentoo got the portage idea from). Compiler performance is more important there. Binary performance seldom makes a real life difference.
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Originally posted by markg85 View PostIt is completely useless to measure compiling times or memory usage for clang while compiling.
Originally posted by DeepDayze View Postnatch, as FreeBSD is intended as a SERVER OS not a desktop OSLast edited by archibald; 06 September 2012, 03:46 AM.
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Increased compiling speed is 'nice to have' but it's not that important.
I too run gentoo and desktop and servers. And while compiling takes a lot of time sometimes, it doesn't matter. Say Clang is 25% faster, which its not, compiling libreoffice now takes about 30-45 minutes on my phenom x6. I'm not sitting there twiddling my thumbs waiting for it to finish. So if it's done 10 minutes faster, while nice, I probably never notice it.
As for ram usage during compilation, while I'm for memory efficiency in running programms etc, very strongly in favor. But during compilation, who cares. Really, who cares.
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I was compiling libreoffice (and the rest of the programs I had installed) on a celeron (a low spec one supported by 3GB of RAM), so on that laptop a 10% speedup would have saved me about an hour. With that said, I'm recompiling things left right and centre to try to help test the new Xorg packages - basically if I want to install something I need to compile it. People who aren't tracking the development branch don't need to do this though, so for them it's unlikely to be an issue.
I suppose one of their concerns could be how much development time is spent waiting for things to compile; from that point of view, anything that allows developers to spend more time working and less time waiting is probably a good thing for them.
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Originally posted by Awesomeness View PostUnder FreeBSD installing software from the ports tree means compiling it (guess where Gentoo got the portage idea from). Compiler performance is more important there. Binary performance seldom makes a real life difference.
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