On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:18 PM, John B Thiel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbthiel@gmail.com">jbthiel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
It takes 5 minutes and 300MB of core to compile a helloworld.sml with one line:<br>
print "Hello, world!\n";<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The 300MB memory sounds ok, the 5 minutes not so much. My netbook with 2GB of memory and windows 7 gets the job done in 10 seconds.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Was your system perhaps loaded up with a lot of memory hungry applications and/or do you have very little RAM?</div><div><br></div><div>Another possibility is a virus scanner. There are several very poorly designed virus scanners on windows which slow down file access insanely. Try turning off your virus scanner and see if that helps.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The output of a '-verbose 3' compile could also be helpful.</div><div><br></div></div>