ICS will be a much larger release than any previous Android release. That means that it will also put a much bigger strain on the machines that people use to compile it. As a rule of thumb, everything about ICS in AOSP
will be about twice as large as it was for Gingerbread.
Here are some preliminary numbers. Final numbers will probably be a bit different, but those should be a reasonable first-order
approximation. Of course, your mileage may vary. - 6GB of download.
- 25GB disk space to do a single build.
- 80GB disk space to build all AOSP configs at the same time.
- 16GB RAM recommended, more preferred, anything less will measurably
benefit from using an SSD. - 5+ hours of CPU time for a single build, 25+ minutes of wall time, as
measured on my workstation (dual-E5620 i.e. 2x quad-core 2.4GHz HT,
with 24GB of RAM, no SSD).
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