Re: Keeping up to date with -current with a cross-compiler

[David Riley <fraveydank%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Dec 13, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Donald Lee wrote:

> FWIW - when I last upgraded my 68K mac to NetBSD 2.1 (?)  from NetBSD 1.3.1,
> which had been running happily and sppedily for years.....
> (I don't remember exactly what version I upgraded to)
> 
> I noticed a signoficant slowdown on just about everything I ran, and did
> some performance analysis.  What I found was that the normal SW
> bloat has afflicted NetBSD.  There are lots of things that the newer
> systems do, like localization, that are actually rather expensive.  We
> just don't notice the cost because the CPu and disks are so
> fast.  When you run on a 20 year old 68K machine, though, you notice!
> 
> The strace of a 1.3.1 application vs a newer system is a real eye-opener.
> 
> I have not tried this lately, but I imagine it's gotten worse.  Everything
> in NetBSD has gotten more "feature rich" - i.e. complex - over time, and
> that has got to slow things down.

I figured that would be a factor, but I'd be surprised if it was making this 
much of a difference.  Of course, I've been surprised a lot before.

- Dave