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Increasing compiling speed in Developer Help

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Nov 10 2011, 8:48 pm

Hello,

I am compiling a large source, probably about 100,000+ lines or so.

However, the compiling time is taking quite along time. Which is to be expected, what I do not understand is why when I compile the code on my 6 year old laptop it takes about 1 minute and when I compile on my new desktop that is really so much faster it can take almost 6 minutes to compile.

Laptop Specs:
AMD® Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology 2.2ghz
4GB Ram
64 bit windows 7

Desktop Specs:
AMD Phenomx4 965 3.41ghz
8gbram
64bit windows 7

Its really annoying because I don't understand why its taking so much longer on my desktop.
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Also any computer settings times that would increase the speed of compiling?

#1 Nov 10 2011, 9:03 pm
SuperAntx	Disabling "Automatically set FILE_DIR for sub-directories" speeds up the compiling process considerably.

#2 Nov 10 2011, 9:05 pm In response to SuperAntx (#1)
Mouchy	SuperAntx wrote: Disabling "Automatically set FILE_DIR for sub-directories" speeds up the compiling process considerably. Has is this done?

#3 Nov 10 2011, 9:06 pm In response to Mouchy (#2)
SuperAntx	It's under "Build>Preferences for [Game]" in the file menu.

#4 Nov 10 2011, 9:08 pm In response to SuperAntx (#3)
Mouchy	SuperAntx wrote: It's under "Build>Preferences for [Game]" in the file menu. WOW Thank you so much, I just compiled in 1 second :D you dont even understand how much time you just saved me.