Re: Sysinst default root login shell

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:04:33PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Funny you should say that, while a CVS checkout of all of the NetBSD 
> source tree have grown in time from about 20 minutes to about 5 hours on 
> a VAX-8650 as we move from NetBSD 2 to NetBSD 5. Did we really improve 
> performance, or did we only just get faster computers, while the code 
> itself got slower?
> Because I doubt you can claim a 10 time size increase of the source code 
> tree...

If you install NetBSD-2 on your VAX-8650, does a checkout of the current
source tree take more or less time than checking it out when running 
NetBSD 5 on the same machine?  If you're going to claim that one version
of the OS is slower than another you should have them perform the same
task.

eric