Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] packet-parlay.c takes a very long time to compilein Fedora Co

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From: Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:00:50 +1000
Anders Broman (AL/EAB) wrote:
> Hi,
> I actually did the last change to the file and the ethereal_gen.py
> script is updated,
> But with MSVC the whole Ethereal package compiles in ~ 5 minutes with a
> 1.5 Ghz Pentium
> Processor and 512 Mbit RAM.

I forget how log it takes on my dual P-III 866, but the compiler peaks
out at about 300MB RAM.

Good thing I've got 1.75GB to play with.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of W. Borgert
> Sent: den 21 april 2006 11:29
> To: Jeff Morriss
> Cc: Ethereal Development List
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] packet-parlay.c takes a very long time to
> compilein Fedora Core 5
> 
> Quoting Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
>>Has anyone else noticed that packet-parlay.c (in plugins/giop/) takes 
>>a _very_ long time to compile?  I recently upgraded from Fedora Core 4
> 
> 
>>to Fedora Core 5 and now it takes around 10 minutes to compile it (on 
>>my
>>1.6 GHz Pentium 4); I seriously thought the compiler was hung it was 
>>taking so long...
> 

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