Rakudo builds are unbearably slow with 2.9.0 (somewhat urgent)

[Jonathan Worthington]

  On 19/10/2010 18:35, chromatic wrote:
> 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.
>
Me too. Here, 6:48 for r49556. With r49557 it's being going for well 
over ten minutes.

Thanks,

Jonathan