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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-07-15 13:46:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-07-15 13:46:51 +0000 |
| commit | 5ff12d9f285e9a4e13c0c05a7d20ae8356ba403d (patch) | |
| tree | fb1503c05502740ebfe62efb6490c812a218a5a6 /pod/perldelta.pod | |
| parent | 6c8794e10b09ca34bc4cba7d181b87e88139b0fb (diff) | |
| download | perl-5ff12d9f285e9a4e13c0c05a7d20ae8356ba403d.tar.gz | |
(retracted by #17551)
Copy the warnings about build and test times from
the RC announcements to perldelta.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17550
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldelta.pod')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 01b28e5eaf..76da0e0cfa 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<perl561delta>. +=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 |