Re:Why is Windows so slow?
by groby_b on Monday December 19, 2011 @01:44PM
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A large part of Windows slowness is NTFS, as you allude to in your last sentence. There are a myriad ways to slow the damn thing down, and none to make it significantly faster.
There's also the issue that it seems to slow down exponentially with directory size. In short, worst FS for building large software.
As for the OP's build time complaint about XCode - don't do that. Use the make build instead. Not only does XCode take forever to determine if it needs to build anything at all, it caches dependency computations. So if you do modifications outside of XCode, too, welcome to a world of pain :) (I know evmar knows, but for the OP: Use GYP_GENERATORS=make && gclient runhooks to generate makefiles for Chromium on OSX)
Re:Why is Windows so slow?
by greggman on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @12:39AM
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the make build didn't exist at the time I posted that AFAIK. The make build is oodles faster than the xcode build and I use it now of course but it's still the slowest platform to build chromium on by a long margin.
There's also the issue that it seems to slow down exponentially with directory size. In short, worst FS for building large software.
As for the OP's build time complaint about XCode - don't do that. Use the make build instead. Not only does XCode take forever to determine if it needs to build anything at all, it caches dependency computations. So if you do modifications outside of XCode, too, welcome to a world of pain :) (I know evmar knows, but for the OP: Use GYP_GENERATORS=make && gclient runhooks to generate makefiles for Chromium on OSX)