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

[Harri Pasanen]

Typically it is the filesystem speed that makes the difference.  Compilers tend 
to generate lots of temporary files and linux filesystems just blow away ntfs.

Grego

Saturday, January 15, 2011 05:26 pm 
Nikos Chantziaras writes:
> The way I solved this is to cross-compile from Linux to Windows.  GCC on
> Linux/Mac is quite OK speed-wise.  Guess the Windows port isn't that good.
> 
> On 01/14/2011 07:13 PM, Constantin Makshin wrote:
> > It depends on the compiler you use. According to 3rd-party
> > benchmarks, MSVC compiler is usually faster than GCC, but produces
> > better (both smaller and faster at the same time) code. But it can be
> > incredibly slow if you enable link-time code generation (this feature
> > is useful when you want the compiler to optimize as much as possible,
> > i.e. when optimization is more important than compilation time).
> > 
> > On Friday 14 January 2011 20:00:06 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> [...] PS: Generally I noticed that compiling on Windows is slow as
> >> molasses :-P
> 
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