I feel you. I splurged on a Threadripper Pro 24-core machine with 128 GB of RAM and 960 GB Intel optane source code storage drive because I wanted to spend what I could afford to minimize the time I spend waiting for Android ROM builds.
On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 11:24 AM 'enh' via Android Building < [email protected]> wrote: > depends how much you value your time. we have graphs somewhere where we > actually did the experiment of adding memory and cores. iirc the impact of > more memory does top out somewhere around 128GiB, but since everything > grows and 256 is the next step up, that gives some breathing room to keep > these machines useful. (similarly with disk space, though it's always > easier to add disk space after the fact than it is memory.) > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 9:19 AM Michael Swartout < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> You purchased way to much, overkill. >> >> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 10:56 AM 'enh' via Android Building < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> yeah, unfortunately i'm only aware of two options, and they're both >>> basically "throw money at the problem until it goes away": >>> >>> 1. get a better computer. (256 GiB of ram, 64 cores, and 2 TiB of ssd >>> are the current default.) >>> >>> 2. build in the cloud. >>> https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/master:build/soong/docs/rbe.md >>> has some details, but i'm not sure there's a step-by-step guide anywhere. >>> >>> (google actually uses _both_ together, so although i can personally >>> vouch for "1 without 2" as useful and "1 and 2" as useful, i've never tried >>> "2 without 1".) >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 8:26 AM Michael Swartout < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I overcame that issue, changing 18 minutes into 3 minutes now. By >>>> changing my 24gb of memory that was only 2400mhz., into 32gb of memory at >>>> 3200mhz. And it was unbearable for me also. Soong only analyzes after >>>> certain things you do in the source code. For sure, after a mk or or bp >>>> file change. It won't do it if you have compiled a library or libraries >>>> already and it is a dependency of the library or binary you are trying to >>>> currently compile. >>>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 10:00 PM Dean Wheatley <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Any hints from Googlers on how to improve this? >>>>> On Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 6:08:04 AM UTC+11 Dean Wheatley wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Wow, 18 minutes, that's unbearable. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 7:01:21 AM UTC+11 Michael Swartout >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Lucky yours only takes 60 seconds. It takes 18 minutes, everytime I >>>>>>> make a change to almost anything. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 9:29 PM Dean Wheatley <[email protected]> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Is there a better/faster way to develop Android.bp in the AOSP tree >>>>>>>> than waiting for the many (> 60) seconds it takes to "analyzing >>>>>>>> Android.bp >>>>>>>> files and generating ninja file at out/soong/build.ninja" after any >>>>>>>> change >>>>>>>> to any Android.bp file in the tree? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the >>>>>>>> "Android Building" mailing list. >>>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/android-building?hl=en >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> --- >>>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>>> Groups 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