Re: Two strange messages while building Emacs on MS-Windows

[Óscar Fuentes]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> I do "make -j2" and get about %170 of cpu utilisation (most of the
> less-than-100% is due to phases in the build process where we only have
> one process running, such as when running `configure'), so presumably my
> 6min would turn into no more than 10min if run sequentially.
> Still pretty far from his 30min, so while "make -j" would help, the
> inefficiency of the bootstrap is at least as important in his specific
> case, I think.

Starting an Emacs process for byte-compiling one .el file is *much*
slower on MSWindows than on GNU/Linux. In general, starting a process is
much slower on Windows than *nix, but I don't know if there are other
factors involved.