Re: Bootstrapping on MS-Windows. Now much slower

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:21:15 +0100
> From: Dani Moncayo <address@hidden>
> 
> Last time I did a bootstrap of the trunk for MS-Windows (9 days ago,
> with "mingw32-make -j4 bootstrap"), it took on my laptop about 14/15
> minutes to complete.

Did you use -j4 or -j2 last time?  Using too many simultaneous jobs
can actually slow down the build, although 3-fold slowdown sounds
gross.

> I've just done this again (with the current trunk), and it has taken
> "00h49m28.682s" (?!)
> 
> Do you also observe this slow down?

No, I still get my 6 to 7 min (with -j8 on Core i7).

> What's the reason for this?

Did you update your anti-virus software, perhaps?  Or any other
system-wide updates?  Look in the system logs (a.k.a. "Event Viewer"),
under "Application" and "System" for clues.