Re: Bootstrap time on MS-Windows (was: Two strange messages while building Emacs on MS-Windows)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 12:17:39 +0100
> From: Dani Moncayo <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > How much time does it take you to bootstrap, btw?  And on what
> > machine?
> 
> For the record: on my laptop (Intel Core i5-2410M @ 2.30GHz), these
> are the times of a "mingw32-make -j8 bootstrap"  (preceded by a
> "mingw32-make distclean" + "configure ..."):
> * emacs-24 branch --> 30 min. 42 sec.
> * trunk --> 29 min. 41 sec.
> 
> C:\emacs>mingw32-make --version
> GNU Make 3.82.90
> 
> C:\emacs>gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.7.2

Core i5 has only 2 cores, so "-j5" seems to be more appropriate.
Eventually, only testing will tell, since memory and disk speed are
also factors.

And yes, GCC 4.7.2 takes twice as long as my ancient 3.4.4.  But I
still think you can do better than 31 min.