On Mar 9, 11:48pm, "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" wrote:
>I assume you mean doing a complete, from-scratch, build of the entire
>source tree, by doing a make in /usr/src?
>
>Here is the tcsh "time" output of my last full build (from 1.0):
>	11132.886u 3536.241s 5:31:58.46 73.6% 0+0k 235159+97691io 0pf+0w
>
>Translated, that's 5 1/2 hours of user time.  I have a 486DX2/80 with
>20MB RAM (64MB swap spread over two disks), two SCSI-2 drives
>connected to an EISA-bus bt747s, and 512k write-back level-2 cache.
>
>It used to take me three to four days on my old 386DX/33 with 5MB of
>RAM and IDE drives, though. :-)

My Mac II does a complete, from scratch build in two and a half days.
The efficiency of the kernel has improved somewhat. ;-)

~Steve


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