[PyKDE] How to contribute to sip ?

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 28.02.06 18:18:42, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > With one source file (plus lots of header files) the whole of PyQt4 takes
> 2
> > minutes 50 seconds on my 2GHz Opteron. Microsoft compilers struggle with
> > such large source files.
> 
> My experience is that GCC cannot handle PyQt3 single-file version and takes
> like 20 minutes to compile it,

It takes <10 minutes here (Pentium-M 1.4GHz) with 4 files and debug mode.
The latter is important because else gcc takes up more memory than is
installed on my system, not sure why though.

> MSVC in roughly 100 seconds. Are you saying that this scenario is going to
> change with PyQt4?

PyQt4 is a bit faster than PyQt3 here and also (IIRC) doesn't have a
problem when building without debug symbols.

Andreas

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