> On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Samuli Kaski wrote:
>
> > make dep; make clean; make zImage took on
> >
> > 2.0.34-pre4 10 min 36 sec
> > 2.1.91 9 min
>
> Nice, is this repeatable?
Well I haven't tried it several times on 2.1.91 but on 2.0.34-pre4 I hit
10 min - 11 min constantly (with no additional load). But I guess you
were mostly interested in the 2.1 part, so I can't give you an answer.
Shoot me, but I'm too lazy to debug why sound breaks in 2.1 while
playing q2 and didn't want to come whining here, thus went back to 2.0.
> > Nice, not mindblasting though, improvement I would say.
>
> Well considering that compiling is fairly CPU bound, and upgrading kernels
> doesn't make your cpu go faster (shame isn't it), I'd say this were very
> respectable.
Yes, I knew that compiling is very CPU bound but seeing the figures here
I must admit I never thought it was that much. Since for one thing
people with similiar CPU's but let's say one with more memory and better
disk subsystem can compile the kernel even in twice the less time. But
anyway, as Ingo pointed out kernel improvement must be really
considerable.
-- Samuli Kaski, samkaski@cs.helsinki.fi Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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