In 2000, when I first started hacking on Subversion, it took almost 10 minutes to build Subversion (way pre-0.17) on my weak old Pentium II whitebox PC.
Just now I built Subversion 1.4.4 on my Macbook Core 2 Duo in 2 minutes flat.
A rough interpretation of Moore's Law suggests that between 2000 and now, Subversion build time should have dropped from 10 minutes to ~30 seconds.
But Subversion has gotten bigger and more complex to build since then, too. So yeah, we run faster every year, but at the same time they're slowly increasing the incline of the road :-).
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A rough interpretation of Moore's Law suggests that between 2000 and now, Subversion build time should have dropped from 10 minutes to ~30 seconds.
But Subversion has gotten bigger and more complex to build since then, too. So yeah, we run faster every year, but at the same time they're slowly increasing the incline of the road :-).
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