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From:	Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: allegro compile time
Date:	Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:20:17 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> just wondering, for those of you who use allegro, how long did it take to
>> compile for you??  it almost took an hour (just over 50 minutes) for me
on
>> my 486DX 66.
>
>Did you check your system configuration against the recommendations in 
>section 3.9 of the FAQ?  If you have, this time might well be about 
>right, since 486 is about 10 times slower than a P350.

50 minutes sounds about right to me. Building Allegro 3.9.22 takes
three and a half minutes on a p500, but I was developing on a 486
DX33 up until version 2.2, and I remember the 2.1 version was taking
around 15 to 20 minutes for a complete rebuild. The library has
grown dramatically since then, and now contains over 60 support
programs (tests, examples, etc), wheras there was only one test.exe
and no example programs in that old version, so although I don't
have a 486 any more to test this, an hour doesn't seem at all
unreasonable.


	Shawn Hargreaves.

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