On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 09:50:05PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote:
> 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...

I guess hardly anybody is using Ultra DMA 100 capable disks on
his Pentium machine... ;-) Old motherboards don't even have
support for DMA modes.

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>