Rakudo builds are unbearably slow with 2.9.0 (somewhat urgent)

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On Tuesday 19 October 2010 at 09:22, Patrick R wrote:

> Today several of us have been building Rakudo with the Parrot
> 2.9.0 release and finding that it is taking an extremely long time --
> much longer than previously.
> 
> Here's my current table of revisions and build times:
> 
>   Rakudo    Parrot         Time needed for rakudo's "make"
>   2010.09   49192 2.8.0    03m44s
>   f17e400   49387          04m16s
>   f17e400   49541          04m24s
>   f17e400   49575 2.9.0    greater than 20 mins (*)
> 
> (*) I'm still waiting for the build to finish as I compose this message.
> 
> The times represent the time reported by "time make" after
> performing a "perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot" step.  (Full
> procedure below.)
> 
> Parrot r49541 was on October 15, so the increase in build time is due
> to a change that has occurred in the last three or four days.  I'm
> working on bisecting the problem further.

I'm almost certain it's r49557.

-- c