[PyKDE] How to contribute to sip ?

Jim Bublitz jbublitz at nwinternet.com
Tue Feb 28 18:12:13 GMT 2006


On Tuesday 28 February 2006 09:18, 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, while I can compile PyQt3 single-file with
> MSVC in roughly 100 seconds. Are you saying that this scenario is going to
> change with PyQt4?

gcc 4.0.1 appears to have problems with large PyQt and PyKDE "single" files. A 
couple of users have reported here that gcc 4.0.3 doesn't have that problem. 

gcc 3.3 seems to fail with really large cpp files - the kdeui module won't 
compile and PyKDE always splits that in 2. All of the other files (incl PyQt) 
work.

The other limitation is the amount of free memory available, as the 
concatenated files use a lot of RAM.

Jim




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