What should I say, for the nightlies I build four debian versions on my server, six fedora versions on my laptop directly and four centos versions in virtual machines (because of compatibility reasons).
I believe building under Linux is normally much faster than Windows.
Yesterday, I was learning wxsmith source, when I change the file
trunk/src/plugins/contrib/wxSmith/properties/wxspropertygridmanager.h
It will take more than 15 minutes to build the wxsmith plugin, so it's annoying. :)
Sat Apr 7 12:27:27 2012 >>> dev-util/codeblocks-9999-r20
merge time: 9 minutes and 1 second.
Tue May 8 00:21:25 2012 >>> dev-util/codeblocks-9999-r20
merge time: 8 minutes and 56 seconds.
Thu May 24 21:12:19 2012 >>> dev-util/codeblocks-9999-r20
merge time: 9 minutes and 42 seconds.
Tue May 29 23:59:06 2012 >>> dev-util/codeblocks-9999-r20
merge time: 9 minutes and 34 seconds.
Sat Jun 2 15:54:43 2012 >>> dev-util/codeblocks-9999-r20
merge time: 9 minutes and 39 seconds.
Fri Jun 15 22:05:37 2012 >>> dev-util/codeblocks-9999-r20
merge time: 9 minutes and 21 seconds.
Mon Jun 18 03:16:44 2012 >>> dev-util/codeblocks-9999-r20
merge time: 10 minutes and 5 seconds.
This includes fetching the latest changes from svn, bootstrapping, configure --disable-pch, make -j5, make install, and another copy from the sandbox to the real filesystem.
So, if you're not running quad+ core machine and you value your time - think about an upgrade ;D
This is a q6600 @ 3.2ghz and it is quite old by now (3-4 years)