[Gllug] Issues with Hotplug && Auto-mounting

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Wed Nov 30 11:11:19 UTC 2005


On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:19:33AM +0000, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On 30 Nov 2005, at 08:42, Peter Childs wrote:
> >Silly point and I might be getting this completely wrong but most of
> >firefox is written in a mixture of Javascript, XML, very little in
> >files that actually need compiling. Basically the compiled bits are a
> >collection of libraries, oh and a boot strap.
> 
> The firefox1.0.7 source tarball is ~30MB in compressed form. It  
> contains 5783 C and C++ files, containing 2972784 lines of code[0].  
> I'm only guessing here, of course, but I'd say that will take some  
> time to compile. It is possible, of course, that so much javascript  
> and XML is part of this that the numbers I have quoted amounts to  
> very little in comparison, but I'd be surprised.

Not tried it on my new machine, but it used to take over 6 hours to
compile on my old ITX (1 GHz Nehemiah).

Rich.

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