Comment Re:Compiling - xckd (Score 1) 123
The 45 minute builds back in the 1990s
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Obviously someone never tried compiling the Linux kernel back then. An hour to build was considered fast. It also was a good stability test because questionable computers would almost always crash.
These days the Linux kernel takes 5 minutes tops.
Android is also a beast to build - back in the early days, half a day to build it was common. Even on a high end machine you did a clean build in around an hour and a half. If you got a super tricked out Threadripper PC with SSDs you got it down to around 45 minutes. 64 core builds at the time were impressive. Of course these days we have 128 core PCs, but even Android 14 doubled the build time over Android 13.
Windows reportedly took 8 hours to build in the NT days.
In a little over 20 years we went from build times on things like Linux, GCC, Glibc, and other big projects which took the better part of an hour to just a few minutes. Fast enough that OpenEmbedded Linux builds everything from source - you set up a project and build it and it compiles the cross-compilers, the host libraries, and build tools and then spits out an image you can use in about half an hour.
Of course, the real thing is likely more WFH stuff - because if you walked in the door to the office, you were on the clock. At home, I suppose you could go through all that, but most people I know just close their laptops which puts them to sleep, so they just need to log into the VPN the next day. Hell, I'm super lazy, I just lock the PC and leave it running. It's not like the few watts the laptop consumes is going to kill me - I'm saving tons on gas and other things not going to the office so leaving the laptop plugged in and on isn't going to hurt matters.