Re: Too good to believe?

Jon Torrez (jon@wwwebservers.com)
Sun, 3 May 1998 19:19:08 -0500 (CDT)


On Mon, 4 May 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:

<WWW>root@terrorist.math.ntu.edu.tw writes:
<WWW>>
<WWW>>
<WWW>> him1: Complete Linux kernel compile times:
<WWW>> him1: Dual P2-300, 64mb SDRAM, 75 seconds
<WWW>> him1: Dual PPro166/512, 64mb EDO, 45 seconds
<WWW>
<WWW>
<WWW>% make MAKE="make -j 3"
<WWW>

I believe in the original post (I don't have it anymore) the
person doing this benchmark did make -j install which spawns lots of
process' which would make things faster :) -- I have a dual P166MMX box
and it takes about 4 minutes to get a kernel compiled...

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