Re: CW to Xcode transition - Is more RAM worthwhile?
Re: CW to Xcode transition - Is more RAM worthwhile?
- Subject: Re: CW to Xcode transition - Is more RAM worthwhile?
- From: Jerry <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:51:19 +0000
On 21 Dec 2005, at 13:01, David Niemeijer wrote: Thanks to everyone for their feedback. I ended up running a test. I installed a clean 10.4.3 partition with Xcode 2.2 and an UB Carbon c++ project with 75 source code files. I build a debug and release target and in both cases free memory remained around 1 GB so looks like I am fine with my 2 GB. In a way that is too bad, as I had hoped the shear slowness of Xcode was a memory limitation, but it is clear it is not. I compared building the same project with Xcode and CW. With Xcode 2.2 on my 2.5 GHz dual G5 it took 1:23 for a complete debug build (without rebuilding the pre-compiled headers) and with CW it took 34 seconds.
Build times of a minute or so are OK to live with. When your application takes 20 minutes to compile with XCode and 5 minutes with CW, then you're wasting a lot of time per day. I suspect the main trouble is that CW has the compiler built in and only needs a single instance to compile every file in your project. XCode has to call gcc in batches and so it gets the whole startup and header file parsing overhead repeated many times during a build.
Jerry
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