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by fhars 4465 days ago
Start the compile, eat dinner, go to bed, breakfast, go to school, eat lunch, done. Beats fighthing with a cross compiler toolchain for a one-off job by miles.

(Reminds me of a povray benchmark I did some time ago: start the render, go on a holiday trip, wait some more, done: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/de.comp.os.linux.misc/XmdkN1... )

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In the 90s I built a FreeBSD firewall using discarded PC parts. It took 10.5 hours to build world and kernel. There were 2 power outages that forced me to start over each time. I bought my first personal UPS to fix that problem. I would learn how to cross compile instead of waiting 12 hours.