Luke Schneider wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering how you were doing this development work for the E3s.. Are you using a crosscompiler or do you have GCC running on the E3 itself?
Well, I've had Debian running on the E3, and for a stunt I tried compiling a kernel; it took about four hours. (Look in the list archives for "Debian report" for the exact figures.) While it's still faster than the Sun workstations I learnt to program on, personally I'd be happier cross-compiling.
Incidentally, I also have an NSLU2, which is a similar specced ARM device with 32MB and a USB 2 disk. Trying to compile C++ on that more or less kills it stone dead. Trying to compile a 4000 line C++ program took, basically, all day; I think this is because the C++ compiler's working set is too big to fit in RAM, which means its thrashing the swap continuously. So given that the E3 has a USB 1 connection, making for ludicrously slow swap, things would be even worse on it.