Here a few measurements to give you an indication of typical hardware needs during package compilation.
For the package Stdlib, when compiling with the product version of sac2c, we have:
| date | sac2c version | operating system | processor | clock rate | numPU | make -jN | linksetsize | time | memory |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2016 | 1.3-beta-OldManOfStorr | MacOs Sierra | i5 | 3.2GHz | 4 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Dec 2016 | 1.3-beta-OldManOfStorr | MacOs Sierra | i5 | 3.2GHz | 4 | 1 | 500 | ||
| Dec 2016 | 1.3-beta-OldManOfStorr | MacOs Sierra | i5 | 3.2GHz | 4 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Dec 2016 | 1.3-beta-OldManOfStorr | MacOs Sierra | i5 | 3.2GHz | 4 | -j | 0 | 20mins | 1.9GB |
| Dec 2016 | 1.3-beta-OldManOfStorr | MacOs Sierra | i5 | 3.2GHz | 4 | -j | 500 | 20 mins | 1.4GB |
| Dec 2016 | 1.3-beta-OldManOfStorr | MacOs Sierra | i5 | 3.2GHz | 4 | -j | 1 | — | — |
| Dec 2016 | 1.3-beta-OldManOfStorr | Linux | Intel Xeon X5650 | 2.7GHz | 24 | -j | 500 | 18 mins | 1.7 GB |
| Dec 2016 | 1.3-beta-OldManOfStorr | Linux | AMD Opteron 6320 | 1.4GHz | 8 | -j | 500 | 31 mins |