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Hi Bruno!
Don't want to add noise to your tip about WM_NCOMPPROCS=4 for compilation. But that may be problematic for some people: certain compilers (for instance CLang) use HUGE amounts of memory when doing full optimiziation. The files generated by the grammars are very large and the problem is that three grammars from the base library get compiled at approximately the same time. I've seen cases where this forces machines with medium amount of memory (8Gig to be precise) into swapping and making them almost non-responsive. So I don't endorse this tip. I'd rather have people go "took me long to compile" than "compilation frooze my machine" (and I think I remember at least one such instance on the MessageBoard)
Bernhard
Hi Bernhard,
Mmm... and I thought that .NET was annoying enough... I've never used CLang myself, so I had no idea it could be such a memory hog :(
Then how about an if and only if indication that one can only use this option if using GCC or ICC? Something like:
- Note
- If you are using a GCC or ICC compiler, then before running one of the commands above, you can run this command:
... and so on.
Best regards, Bruno
