2017-11-16 21:45 GMT+01:00 Richard Copley : > On 16 November 2017 at 18:10, Fabrice Popineau > wrote: > > > > 2017-11-16 18:39 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii : > >> > >> > From: Fabrice Popineau > >> > 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.