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

[Yuvraaj Kelkar]

In my limited experience building mid-sized QT projects, using the
precompiled header directives in my pro file reduced the compile time
from 3 minutes to about a minute on Ubuntu and from 5 minutes (debug
and release) to about 1.5 minutes on Windows.

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Harri Pasanen <grego at mpaja.com> wrote:
> 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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