Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

On 02/04/2014 05:47 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> On 02/04/2014 03:08 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
>>> Having an AMI would help, but even with an AMI in place, MinGW is
>>> still insanely slow.  Running "make" on already made PostgreSQL (so
>>> there was nothing to actually do) takes 1.5 minutes.  And a make after
>>> a "make clean" takes half an hour.  This is on an actual desktop, not
>>> an AWS micro instance.  So doing a git bisect is just painful.  Is the
>>> MSVC build faster?
>> Would have to check with the same build options (cassert and debug have
>> major timing effects.) I agree it's not lightning fast like "make -j 4"
>> on a decent linux box.
> I wonder if ccache exists for Mingw.  That thing makes a huge difference
> in the perceived build speed ...
>
>             


Indeed. But it's not really, AFAIK. Certainly it's not in the list of 
packages known to mingw-get on the machine i checked on (jacana).

cheers

andrew