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Comment by krylon | Hacker News Reader

Completely OT, but I remember when building Emacs was like "there goes my afternoon". On my current desktop (which is kind of snazzy, I admit), it takes less than 30 seconds wall clock time. This is one aspect of The Future(tm) I definitely appreciate. ;-)

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You have one mother of a desktop there. Or, you're not doing a clean build :).

For me, full clean make takes AFAIR something like 10 to 20 minutes. i5-2400, 12GB RAM, SSD drive. Still, totally worth it :). I've been running Emacs 26 for 2 months now.

You are compiling it with "make -j 8" (or -j 4), right?

Oh.

Thanks!

Build from the source tarball, or a bootstrap build? For me, I can't get the later much below 10 minutes and often much longer.

My desktop is a Ryzen 1700, 8 cores, 16 threads. So I run "make -j16". =D

    $ make -j16
    make -j16  156,14s user 9,37s system 714% cpu 23,166 total

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