Why I use old hardware

Re:Why I use old hardware by drosan on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:55AM (#18979265)

> can compile the Linux kernel from scratch in 20 minutes

so large projects compile time is very big, that's actually kinda bad for software developers.

> it can play 1080p video in real-time

yep until he tries to watch 1080p60fps on youtube, or gets videofiles encoded with 10bit x264 with large amount of reframes (that happens more often than you think btw)

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Re:Why I use old hardware by Sir_Cmpwn on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:06AM (#18979400)

Well, how often do you recompile the whole project from scratch? Incremental builds are a thing.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by drosan on Thursday January 24, 2019 @03:30AM (#18986950)

Happens quite often with large c++ projects and some quirky includes. Change 1 header, recompile whole thing.

For comparison, rebuilding linux kernel with make defconfig takes about 3-4 minutes tops on my laptop, rebuilding one of the work projects - at least 15.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by Sir_Cmpwn on Thursday January 24, 2019 @10:09AM (#18989283)

I don't think this points to a problem with the workflow, but rather to a problem with the codebase. If your codebase is so big and complicated and interlinked that it requires frequently recompiling large swaths of it - it may be poorly designed.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by craftyguy on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:22AM (#18979580)

And ccache!

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Re:Why I use old hardware by drosan on Thursday January 24, 2019 @03:31AM (#18986953)

It is too buggy and has too many false hits to be used in large projects.

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