How long does it take you to compile wine?

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>>>> http://kegel.com/new-computer-2008.html ).
>>>>
>>>> Result: ... it takes me a bit longer today on this machine (11 minutes)
>>>> to build as it did then on a dual cpu hot rod (8 minutes).
>>>> I guess Moore's Law isn't quite keeping up with Wine's code growth :-)
>> Details are on buried that page, but it's "-j3" for the dual core /
>> dual CPU systems.
>>
>> I found a nice graph of Wine's codebase size over time:
>> http://www.ohloh.net/projects/wine/analyses/latest
>> Looks like it's just about exactly doubled since that
>> last measurement in late 2002.
> 
> http://techgage.com/article/intel_core_2_duo_e7200_-_the_new_budget_superstar/11
> has some recent wine build benchmarks:
> 
> Time to build wine-0.9.59:
> quad core, -j 5:
> QX9770: 182s
> QX9650: 193s
> QX6850: 200s
> Q9450: 216s
I have tested this on F9 with gcc-4.3.0 and Wine-1.0 and get for the 
Q9450 305 seconds. The compiler advances kill performance faster than 
CPU vendors can add it... Though to be fair gcc-4.3.0 does more checks 
than gcc-4.1.x by default with -Wall; the bounds check come to mind.

bye
	michael

> Q6600: 251s
> 
> dual core, -j3:
> e8400: 363s
> e7200: 437s
> e6750: 422s
> e6600: 472s
> 
> Golly.  Maybe I should have gotten a quad core :-)
> 
> BTW, I just compared the e7200 and e8400 on the 'valgrind wine test
> suite with -j2' task.
> Results: e8400 is 18% faster (83 minutes vs. 99 minutes).
> I'd love to try this on a quad core... maybe I'll find one at work and
> give it a shot.
> 
> 


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