2011.04.12 02:06 "[Tiff] Libtiff v4.0.0beta7 released", by Bob Friesenhahn

2011.04.18 03:47 "Re: [Tiff] Bug 1941, Was: Libtiff v4.0.0beta7 released", by Graeme Gill

Most of the complilation slowness I see under MingGW32 is due to the 'make' program rather than the compiler. Current MinGW make is file name case-insensitive via trying all case permutations. This is super expensive for directories accessed via network drives. When I type 'make' for a GraphicsMagick build with the source on a network drive (Samba) it takes over a minute before MinGW make does anything at all.

I'm not using make, so I doubt that's the explanation. I'll probably start using MingW more since I upgraded to GCC 4 and a 6 Core processor, which brings the compile time down to something a bit more reasonable...

(For illustration, on my project:

        VC++6 debug:                    28.8s
        VC++6 optimize                  38.6s           
        MingW gcc 4.4.0 debug           1m7.4   
        MingW gcc 4.4.0 optimize        2m10.9
        MingW gcc 4.4.0 optimize -j6    41.7

)

Graeme Gill.