Incredible speed ups on Leopard!?

[Tabitha McNerney]

I may have spoken too soon without investigating under the hood because
building the gcc42 port took the same amount of time on Leopard Server as
Tiger Server on the same Xserve (70 minute).

-T.M.

On 1/2/08, Tabitha McNerney <tabithamc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Has anyone else noticed incredible MacPorts speed up improvements when
> installing various ports?
>
> Here's an example: The same hardware (Xserve Intel 2 x 2 GhZ Dual Core
> Intel). Once this machine was running Tiger Server with MacPorts 1.5.0 and
> I installed the gcc41 port which (if my notes are accurate) took about 88minutes to install from beginning to end (some of the time could have been
> eaten up in the "fetching" of the resource source files). Anyway, the same
> port on Leopard Server on the same machine with MacPort 1.6.0 took me
> roughly 20 minutes to install today. From 88 to 20 minutes is almost
> unheard of. I checked the port files too, to make sure the version of the
> gcc41 port I was installing was the same:
>
> Tiger Server:
>
> gcc41 4.1.2, Revision 2, lang/gcc41 (Variants: universal, darwin_8,
> > darwin_i386, powerpc, odcctools)
> >
>
> Leopard Server:
>
> gcc41 4.1.2, Revision 2, lang/gcc41 (Variants: universal, darwin_8,
> > darwin_i386, powerpc, odcctools)
> >
>
> I presume this is because Leopard and Leopard Server are now leveraging
> the Apple Developer tools with a complete 64-bit wide architecture (both the
> hardware and the software)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> T.M .
>
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