From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:49:27 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Retract #17550: the build/test time warnings do not X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=85a44f902c138b8992bd3dcde43d2f440eddc26d;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Retract #17550: the build/test time warnings do not belong to perldelta, they belong to the announcement. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17551 --- diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 76da0e0..01b28e5 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -18,19 +18,6 @@ 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