Subject: Re: -pipe significantly boosts up kernel compile speed
To: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>
From: Julio Merino <jmmv@hispabsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 07/04/2002 21:50:05
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 04:23:04 +0900
"Bang Jun-Young" <junyoung@mogua.com> wrote:

> 
> > I think you should also check it really faster even on slower
> > (and less memory) machines. Modern machines are always fast anyway :-)
> 
> I have just tested with a plain old Pentium 166 machine that has
> 64MB of memory:
> 
> 		GENERIC
> With -pipe:	  45:36
> Without -pipe:	1:13:48
> 
> Obviously, -pipe was effective on a slow machine as well.

The disk on that machine must be slow...

> One thing interesting here is, with -pipe swap size grew up to 10MB
> during build, while without -pipe no swapping occurred.

Sure, because all obj files are kept in memory using -pipe, you know.


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