Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Well, that was fast...

I just compiled newLISP on a quad-core machine. It took...4 seconds!

This is a case where it's actually faster to compile than to install from a repo.

Update: Thanks to the comment below, I can do it even faster:

1. Download the newLISP source:
http://newlisp.nfshost.com/downloads/
2. Extract the archive.
3. cd into newlisp-x.x.x
4. ./configure-alt
5. make -j 4
6. (As root) make install

Steps 4-6 took about 10 seconds.


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3 comments:

  1. Vaughan Williams9/30/2011 12:49 PM

    Can you try ./configure-alt instead of ./configure?

    Lutz included it in the main distro. I designed it so you wouldn't need to alter the Makefile, it should "just work". Please let me know how it works for you!

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  2. lmf9/30/2011 1:14 PM

    Hi Ted,

    Sure, I'll give it a try, but it will be this weekend or Monday.

    I'll post my results here as I prefer to remain anonymous. Sorry if that's a hassle for you.

    Thanks for your work with newLISP!

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  3. lmf10/03/2011 5:42 AM

    @Ted

    I just tried ./configure-alt and it works. I've edited the post.

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