How much time will it take to build Android OS [closed]

Question

I was trying to build the Android operating system for Galaxy Nexus. It took 6 hours to build. Is it normal or does it have to do with my machine(MBP Core2Duo) or am I missing something?

Answer 1

This is bit of a memory bound operation. Next time you compile try using more threads

make -j8

or

make -j16

With 12 GB of memory I was able to compile the android source in like 40 mins.