24 Oct
2007
24 Oct
'07
5:25 a.m.
In article <f4eb766f0710231919g381c908cjb76a7a2ebabeeb35 at mail.gmail.com>,
"Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> writes:
This reminds me of when I was fresh out of college and was working on
a consulting contract. They were writing 6809 assembly code using a
cross-compiler than ran on something like a PDP-11/34. The project
engineer insisted that using a linker was slower than just
reassembling all 100,000 lines (I kid you not). It would take all day
just to assemble the code so you could test it the next day. I
modified everything to declare symbols and use a linker. That got the
assembly process down to a few minutes and the link process down to a
few hours. You could get 4 builds done in a day. The guy's ego was
so fragile he had a shit fit because I made things 4x more productive!
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On 10/24/07, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at
gmail.com> wrote:
> >> My compile on the VAXstation 2000 was at least a few days. Maybe a week
.
...it was swapping like crazy during the compile, and
swapping to the same disk where the sources were stored. That machine
is S*L*O*W. It would have probably gone a whole lot faster if it had
enough RAM.
I think a VS2000 disk vastly underperforms compared to an RA81 on a
UDA50, so the swapping makes it much, much worse.