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walterpaisley

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Oct 27, 2004
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Happy Friday everyone!

Any developers / power nerds here have any idea why building and installing packages via brew can take a really long time? I know it's not universal but it's accessing system binaries like clang so I thought things wouldn't be too adversely affected. I am trying to install node and brew's was stuck on "make install" now for about 10-12 minutes.

Another example is installing mas – it took about 4-5 minutes in the make phase.

Both installs eventually managed to finish and successfully install those two packages, but I was curious what was contributing or causing the extra long build times.
 
Possibly because Rosetta needs to translate the Intel binaries to ARM code at install time? It can do this on install or on first run.
 
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