Re: Sysinst default root login shell

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

On 2012-04-13 06:58, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> 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.

On my list of things to test. Unfortunately the cooling of the computer 
hall broke a while back, so all such testing came to a halt.

        Johnny

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