[MLton] building mlton from the sources

[Gergely Buday]

Hi All,

http://mlton.org/SelfCompiling

writes "Building with SML/NJ takes some time (roughly 10 minutes on a
1.6GHz machine)". I built from the latest sources with mlton-20070826
and it took 26 minutes to run through the self-compilation cycle
twice. I have an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Dual Core 4200+ (it's said this is
equivalent to 2Ghz) with 4G of RAM.

Is building with mlton so slower than building with sml/nj? And, is it
a proper result for such a machine?

- Gergely