Re: Python recompile

On 08/03/2025 07:19, Keith Thompson wrote:

bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]

You do know this was just an example of a ginormous application with
an overwhelming number of source files? Any app could have done
really.

 Yes, gcc has a lot of source files.  I don't think anyone here would
have disagreed with that.  There was no need to go into details (with
incomplete information) or tell us how slow something is on your
system.
 

Jesus, what is your problem?
I downloaded a large app from Github, something I've done with many dozens of projects, and did so via a ZIP file.
This particular one /did/ take about 90 minutes (it was still going around 90 minutes, but I noticed it had stopped after 105 minutes, as I as busy doing other stuff).
And it /did/ have those numbers of files.
I could have chosen a different app to demonstrate something that is easier to install as a binary than from source code, for example CPython 3.13.
That took a few seconds to download the 27MB EXE, which is an installer, and about a minute to run that and complete the installing. God knows how long it would have taken from source, with the dozen specialist tools that would also be needed. Probably forever, if it doesn't work.
(Except I forgot to tell it the installation path, so it's now buried somewhere on my file system. Never mind, I already have 3.14 anyway.)
Maybe the CPython product it's white-listed so there are fewere security checks to do on the files; I don't know.