Re: ArcticFox browser on NetBSD 10.1 sparc64

On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 13:09:30 +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> To give an idea: on my 2-core amd64 NetBSD build it takes 2 hours,
> on my G4 1.33GHz iBook it takes 4-5hours, on my Netra T1 Ultra IIe
> 500Mhz it takes 40 hours!

I've got reminded about this b/c I've finally switched on my Ultra 1
and I'm building cmake package.  It has been chugging along for a day
and a half already.

  $ ls -lt */+CONTENTS | sed 1q; date
  -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    1417 Jul 25 15:03 zstd-1.5.7/+CONTENTS
  Sun Jul 26 23:32:13 MSK 2026

And that reminded me of something else.  Not only g++ is a pig, it
also has -fkeep-inline-functions on by default, iirc.  And since
anything defined inside class scope is implicitly inline - there's a
_lot_ of it.  So you end up compiling and writing out all of that code
over, and over, and over again for each object file.

I stumbled into this with Self.  With its #pragma implementation and
precompiled headers fixed the compilation time went down like 10x.  I
don't have exact numbers saved, but in one mail I mention my
reasonably decent amd64 laptop going from ~20min to ~2min.  ISTR my g4
mini builds went from 3hrs+ to ~20min.

So you might want to look into whether it might be a factorin your
builds.

-uwe