2017-11-16 21:45 GMT+01:00 Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>:

On 16 November 2017 at 18:10, Fabrice Popineau
<fabrice.popineau@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2017-11-16 18:39 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>>
>> > From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
>> > And on my machine, ./configure is about 10 times slower than compiling
>> > emacs itself (the make -j8 part).
>>
>> Does configure on your machine take anywhere near an hour? I doubt
>> that.
>>
>
> 'make -j8 bootstrap' takes 20mn.
> The ./configure part takes 3-4mn.

That is "10 times faster", not "10 times slower".

No, the figure above is for 'bootstrap'. Most of the time is spent compiling

.elc files.

Running conifgure take 3-4mn on my machine, but compiling emacs.exe

rather takes 30s once configure is done.