[Qt-interest] [OT] Re: suggestion about macbook & qt

[Paul Miller]

On 1/14/2011 9:47 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 01/14/2011 01:48 PM, Arnold Krille wrote:
>> On Friday 14 January 2011 10:54:05 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> On 01/14/2011 11:28 AM, Sean Harmer wrote:
>>>> On Thursday 13 January 2011 22:26:25 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>>> Don't see anything wrong with it.  Especially since development work is
>>>>> not a demanding task.
>>>>
>>>> lol. I spend a lot of my time telling my boss the exact opposite! :-)
>>>
>>> I guess I just produced a sentence that might end up in fortune-mod :-P
>>>     Should have put a "demanding (hardware-wise)" in there...
>>
>> Once your software-project is more then 5 cpp-files and you need to rebuilt
>> everything for buildsystem-fixes, you will disagree with the "not demanding".
>
> If you're developing OpenOffice, yes, it's demanding ;-)  But of course
> I was talking about the average stuff we do.  To give an example, a
> project I'm maintaining consists of exactly 312 source+header files and
> 104.652 lines of code (comments not counted in this.)  Building on a
> 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo machine with 3GB of RAM takes about 70 seconds.  The
> OP's system is not too far away performance-wise from that system, so I
> guess it will be more than adequate for dev work.

Of course, building Qt from source (both debug and release) on that 
machine could take HOURS.