twovests OP wrote on June 2, 2018 at 12:45 AM

Reply to comment by musou in Is there a site that lists how long it takes to compile different programs? by twovests

jstpst becomes a bastion of compile times

people from the future will compile tensorflow just for laughs, comparing them to our ancient compile times

vriska is there

cute_spider_ni_srsly wrote on June 2, 2018 at 1:22 AM (edited on June 2, 2018 at 1:22 AM)

"OoooOOOOoo, on my new iPhone 62, Tensorflow compiled in just four minutes!" the future humans will coo.

rizzines wrote on June 2, 2018 at 7:49 PM

If there's iphones in the future we're doomed.

bunnies wrote on June 2, 2018 at 3:35 AM

you should have been there when we were running gentoo on our athlon xp's in the early 00's "oh you want to try that neat pdf viewer LET'S COMPILE ALL OF QT AND KDE FOR THE NEXT 4 HOURS LOL"

twovests OP wrote on June 2, 2018 at 2:31 PM

i have thoroughly happy that i very rarely have any need to compile something from source

that said, i dual boot so it's good to be able to give someone an estimate. "yeah i can play games in like 2 hours" vs "yeah i can play in like 3 days"