From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Two strange messages while building Emacs on MS-Windows Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:15:13 +0100 Message-ID: <878v97xfbi.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <83mwxpmtp6.fsf@gnu.org> <83fw3hm0nn.fsf@gnu.org> <83k3srdh3d.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355076930 8293 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2012 18:15:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 18:15:30 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 09 19:15:42 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ThlPi-000076-7o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:15:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56358 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ThlPV-0000Nj-MN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:15:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60612) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ThlPS-0000NP-Hy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:15:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ThlPR-0000fK-1A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:15:26 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52968) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ThlPQ-0000f8-Q3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:15:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ThlPa-00005l-SB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:15:34 +0100 Original-Received: from 126.red-88-13-105.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([88.13.105.126]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:15:34 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 126.red-88-13-105.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:15:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 126.red-88-13-105.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:91FQyjYvXplFA0/tlO+CyzQGF40= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:155401 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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.