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It used to take many hours to install if you were installing it from a CD, DVD, or spinny HDD onto a spinny HDD. The last time I had to install it, I did it fro
by daemin 9y ago
It used to take many hours to install if you were installing it from a CD, DVD, or spinny HDD onto a spinny HDD. The last time I had to install it, I did it from and to an SSD, and including patches and extensions it took about half an hour.
The main culprit was extracting and copying all of the small source files that come with it.
- throwaway7645 9y agoThat makes sense. It still seems odd that every other tool I've used takes a small fraction of that.
- daemin 9y agoInstalling big c++ libraries also takes a long time sometimes, for example when decompressing Boost onto your drive. Lots of little files that need to be written.