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Re: x86 release builds are slow



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Andrew Doran wrote:
| I think that's simply fallacious. Yes, our kernels are too fat and we are
| working on that, but you would be hard pushed today to buy a new PC
off the
| shelf with less than 512MB of RAM. We're speaking of virtualization, not
| embedded systems or constrained systems that can just about support
one OS.

Fully-loaded XEN DOMU kernels also boot slower.

You would be hard pressed to buy an off-the-shelf x86 system that cannot
compile NetBSD DOMU in under 3 minutes.  We're not talking about user
time here, we're talking about automated build time.  Who cares how long
that takes, really?  I care about boot speed, and about binary size.
Why should I care how long it takes to build 11 kernels on beefy build
hardware?

- --Michael
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