> Insipired by compiler tests conducted here I did the same thing. The
> used tree was 2.1.91.
>
> make dep; make clean; make zImage took on
>
> 2.0.34-pre4 10 min 36 sec
> 2.1.91 9 min
> Nice, not mindblasting though, improvement I would say.
given that the compiler has not changed between those two compiles, and
only 20-30% of the compilation time is 'spent' in the kernel, it is
something like a 50% perceived kernel speed improvement ...
['spent' is the sum of "spent executing" and "spent waiting"]
-- mingo
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