On 29/06/2019 20:10, Martin Gregorie wrote:
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> I'll pass on this, thanks: like quite a lot of developers I do have a
> personal support library or two and latish on a warm day like this has
> been, I'm quite likely to omit stuff I shouldn't.
>
> One thing I forgot to mention is that all the times I quoted were for a
> second or third compile.
>
> Unsurprisingly, repeated compile times on the T440 and dual Athlon were a
> factor of 2-3 faster than the first compile. When I've looked in the past
> 'top' has always made it obvious that this is due to Linux caching files
> in RAM. I was a little surprised to see that this effect was entirely
> absent for my Pi - obviously 500MB isn't enough memory to let file
> caching have any significant effect on compilation speed for non-trivial
> programs.

Yes, that's one reason I bought the 4 GB model!  A pity I can't test for
you, but my best estimate is that an RPi-4 would not disappoint.

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Cheers,
David
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