From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:46:51 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (retracted by #17551) X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5ff12d9f285e9a4e13c0c05a7d20ae8356ba403d;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git (retracted by #17551) Copy the warnings about build and test times from the RC announcements to perldelta. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17550 --- diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 01b28e5..76da0e0 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -18,6 +18,19 @@ those are marked C<[561+]>. You can see the list of changes in the 5.6.1 release (both from the 5.005_03 release and the 5.6.0 release) by reading L. +=head1 Note about build and test times + +Note that the build times can vary considerably. Perl 5.8.0 is about +twice the size of 5.6.1, and some source code files are quite large, +so your compiler might have hard time processing them. On a fast +modern system with lots of CPU and memory the build can be a matter +of ten minutes, but on slower/older/more heavily loaded systems it +can take up to eight hours, while half an hour to an hour being common. + +Also testing times vary a lot. Perl 5.8.0 has almost six times the +the tests of Perl 5.6.1. Fifteen minutes to half an hour is quite +normal, but a slow system may easily take an hour or more. + =head1 Highlights In 5.8.0 =over 4