[Project_owners] What program do you use to extract the SeaMonkey source file?

[Michael Vincent van Rantwijk]

Neil wrote:
> Michael Vincent van Rantwijk wrote:
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>> Neil wrote:
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>>> Michael Vincent van Rantwijk wrote:
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>>>> My father did it in 18 minutes, but I only have an Intel CoreDuo2 
>>>> equipped notebook available
>>>
>>> The big killer is debug gklayout.dll - even on modern hardware (P4 
>>> 3G, 512MB RAM) it takes over 10 minutes, but on crappy hardware (PIII 
>>> 733, 384MB RAM) you can link optimised gklayout in half the time.
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>> Is that the time it takes to compile gklayout.dll or everything?
> 
> Just gklayout.dll; I checked on a third machine (PIII 866, 512MB RAM) 
> and it links debug gklayout in 7 minutes and compiles depend in 56 
> minutes (note that depend is quite slow on Windows; when it was still 
> supported my Linux P4 1.2, 512MB RAM compiled depend in under half an 
> hour including checkout).

Will lots of RAM help?
I mean what is usually the bottleneck for compilers?  HD, RAM, OS?