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["Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On Tuesday 08 December 2009 17:39:48 Ramin H wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have GCC 4.4.1, CGAL 3.5, Ubuntu 9.10 running in a VMware virtual
> machine, AMD Turion64-X2 processor and 1GB of RAM assigned to this
> virtual machine.
> 
> Compiling classes that contain CGAL code take an incredible amount of
> time. For example, compiling
> CGAL-3.5/examples/Mesh_3/mesh_polyhedral_domain.cpp  takes about 10
> minutes to complete on my machine.
> 
> This means, each time I change anything in this file, I have to wait
> 10 minutes for the code in this file to get compiled. Now, if I have 2
> or 3 classes with CGAL code, if I change anything in those files, I
> have to wait even longer for the whole code to compile.
> 
> Is this normal? Is there any trick to reduce compile time?

With your compiler, that example needs more memory to compile. Probably the 
compiler uses swap. You can try to remove -g from the compilation flags, to 
reduce the memory need, or increase the memory of the virtual machine so that 
the compilation does not use swap.

-- 
Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory           http://www.geometryfactory.com/
Release Manager of the CGAL Project       http://www.cgal.org/