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God I hope not. I use Linux at work, because it's currently the best option in terms of software & hardware support, but if you've EVER done anything with the L
by jff 14y ago
God I hope not. I use Linux at work, because it's currently the best option in terms of software & hardware support, but if you've EVER done anything with the Linux kernel, you should hopefully have realized how helplessly terrible it really is. It's an enormous beast, the turnaround time for testing changes is terrible because it takes so long to compile even after you change a single file, etc.
If we're still using Linux in 2112, we should just launch all the nukes and end ourselves.
- ccozan 14y agoWhat? That's pure bullshit. It takes on a modern machine (in my case a laptop from last year) about 4-5 mins, full with modules. In comparison, some random java project I am working on, it takes maybe 7-8 mins. And actually, if you ever compiled a kernel, which I highly doubt, the make system does not recompile everything, only your change. Besides that, modules you can compile individually.
- dredmorbius 14y agoLinus was bragging about 19 second builds recently. https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/6BxnSisp8fU https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/6BxnSisp...
- ccozan 14y agoOK that was for -j32. 32 core yeah!
- jff 14y agoi7 laptop with 4 GB of RAM. I haven't measured it, but whenever I kick off a kernel build it certainly takes long enough that I end up going off and checking email, etc. But you're right, I haven't built Linux kernels for desktops and Android devices and BlueGene systems, hacking in changes or just putting in debug prints to try and figure out what the fuck Linux is doing so I can write a hardware simulator. Oh wait, yeah, I fucking have. The kernel I'm working on now, non-Linux, can build in about 5 seconds--and this kernel works on a pretty large segment of hardware, too.