compiling mame with less drivers enabled

[wild_eyed]

what does one do before compiling mame to remove drivers?

im looking into building mame for just st-v in the hope of a speed increase.....

[Howard_Casto]

Your are out of luck unfortuantely. 

Removing drivers doesn't increase speed in any way.  I suppose you MIGHT get a little boost in terms of the time it takes mame to load, but that's about it.

Think of it this way.  Let's say you have a bunch of pc games on your computer and one of them is running slow.  Does removing the other games make it run any faster?

[Gray_Area]

Yeah, there's probably a hacked build that might be playable on lesser hardware.

[MacGyver]

I've done it, it is not really smaller or quicker, I did it just so the .exe and exported xmls were only for the list I wanted.  I had a very weird specific reason for doing it, most people would not benefit from it.   It will bork most normal MAME tools and cause issues with child/parent dependencies in frontends.

For educational purposes:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,118886.msg1259931.html#msg1259931