[erlang-questions] Re: [erlang-bugs] Re: [erlang-questions] wx fails to build on Snow Leopard

[Dan Gudmundsson]

It depends on gcc version (and hardware).
I who compile it daily, though not on the mac, have no problem with it,
so I havn't split up the file to make the code more complex and harder
to debug.

It takes 6.5 minutes to compile on my old 1.83 Ghz mac mini, with 1GB memory.

/Dan

Steve Vinoski wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Masklinn <masklinn@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
>> On 7 Sep 2009, at 15:54 , Steve Vinoski wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Jayson Vantuyl <kagato@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>>>  On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Steve Vinoski<vinoski@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>>> What was "quite a while"? 10 minutes? 30 minutes?
>>>>>>>  A small aside.  You should really leave compilations like this for an
>>>>> hour before giving up (and watch the memory usage in the meantime).  If
>>>> it's
>>>> taking up CPU, it's probably just pathological compilation behavior.
>>>>
>>> No need to lecture. Anytime I hear my laptop fans kick into high gear and
>>> run that way for more than 5 minutes, I hunt down the source of the issue
>>> and make it stop. Let it run for an hour? No thanks. I have no interest in
>>> potentially overheating my laptop and unnecessarily shortening its
>>> lifespan
>>> trying to compile something like this.
>>>
>> Any modern CPU (especially in laptops) has built-in temperature management
>> and overheating protection, unless your laptop has pretty severe hardware
>> defects there's no reason for it to overheat (let alone get a shortened
>> lifespan out of that). In any correctly built laptop, the temperatures
>> reached by the components will be well within the hardware's tolerances
>> (though not your thighs's).
>>
> 
> Tell that to my old PowerBook, which recently gave up the ghost after a
> couple months of my son constantly watching video game videos from YouTube,
> causing the fans to be running on high all the time and the body to
> constantly be pretty hot.
> 
> Like I said, no need to lecture. I used to do chip testing. We'd literally
> bake them, we'd freeze them with liquid nitrogen, we'd run them for weeks
> under extreme temperatures. I'm well aware of what they can handle, but I'm
> also well aware of what even non-extreme temperatures can mean for device
> lifespan. So thanks but I'll stand by my concerns.
> 
> And re erlang compilation, though I have no doubt it's malfunctioning under
>> SL, it used to take a good half hour to hour under leopard on a 2GHz C2D
>> macbook.
> 
> 
> The entire compilation of Erlang/OTP took that long, yes, but here we're
> talking about a single file taking that long to compile -- quite a
> difference.
> 
> --steve
>