What surprised me the most was the speed of the compilation, must be a very small program. I tried to compile Godot from source once. Force-stopped it after 3 hours

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago

There's a reason the play is called waiting for Godot

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How many cores do you have and what compiler was it ? Also RAM can help with huge codebases iirc. When I was working with UE5 I had the best Ryzen available with 128 Go of RAM, could compile the engine (which is much bigger than Godot) from source in less than 2 hours iirc (yes that is a full clean+rebuild, not just compiling recent changes)

[–] ICastFist 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

i7-7700 with 16GB of RAM :/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That should be more than enough ram for your quad-core cpu

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I had a OoM with 16 GB and a Quad-Core while linking yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah that would do it. Multi threading doesn't work that well for games but it's usually great for compiling stuff, and 8 threads ain't that much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Make sure to use all your threads: make -j4 or however many cores/threads you would like to use