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

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 01/14/2011 06:05 PM, Paul Miller wrote:
> 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.

Nope.  About 30 minutes here :-)  On Windows though it *does* take 
hours.  I've no idea why.  But the OP is on a Mac, so it will be very fast.

PS:
Generally I noticed that compiling on Windows is slow as molasses :-P