Some say it's slow

[Luke Browell]

Oh - there we go - just finished - It takes just over an hour :-)

On 19 Jun 2010, at 00:48, Luke Browell wrote:

> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> Dan R. K. Ports              MIT CSAIL                http:// 
>> drkp.net/
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