Some say it's slow

[Luke Browell]

Any idea how long gcc44 should take to build on 8 core Pro?

it's tracking over an hour so far with only mail.app for contention.

Luke

On 19 Jun 2010, at 00:44, Dan Ports wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:45:22PM +0100, Luke Browell wrote:
>> I don't mind waiting for Mac Ports to build from source on the latest
>> packages. But why not harness all this processing power and offer
>> users the option to let the build be automatically uploaded back to
>> MacPorts or better still be hashed and offered peer-to-peer to other
>> MacPorts users who can choose a 'turbo' binary option.
>
> The security implications of installing arbitrary binary packages from
> random untrusted users are, uh, very alarming to me.
>
> Besides, I can't imagine that a shortage of compute power is the
> largest obstacle to having binary packages (which I, too, would love  
> to
> see in MacPorts.)
>
> Dan
>
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