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Building Medley Interlisp from source has been dramatically faster since the past week or so: it now takes 1/3 of what it used to. I didn't modify the setup of my Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon box other than the usual system updates, and there were no recent major performance related changes to Medley.
I'm really happy but wonder about the source of the speedup. Perhaps some Linux kernel tweaks but my Mint release doesn't incorporate the bleeding edge.
hmm InterLisp is still alive?
Forgive these questions being general and obvious:
Can you do some kind of profiling of the build?
Can you go back to what it was before and profile that—maybe not?
Are all the resources used for the build local?
Now sure what you mean by all the resources being used: I always do the build with mostly the the same software running, e.g. Firefox.
I see.
Sometimes `strace' may help, run to trace child processes as well and to produce a summary of calls.
I don't know how promising it might be in this particular case or if the effort is worth it.
Anyway, if the old way has also sped up, there is no base case now.
I'm sorry about being terse.
All resources local in the sense that all files used by the build process are local and there is no network I/O.
Otherwise you would also wonder about the performance of the remote end(s).
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