On Tue, 15 May 2007 21:58:17 -0400 Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
[snip]
> These are parallel builds (build.sh -j4) on a dual-core host.  I expected
> FreeBSD 6 to win this test hands-down.  It *really* didn't -- since I do
> both FreeBSD and NetBSD kernel development I would actually like very much
> to know why.
[snip]
> ===> Summary of results:
>          build.sh command: ./build.sh -j4 -V USE_SSP=yes -m i386 -V HOST_CC=cc
> -O2 -march=prescott -mtune=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -V HOST_CFLAGS=-O2
> -march=prescott -mtune=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -V HOST_CXXFLAGS=-O2
> -march=prescott -mtune=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer release
[snip]

There was some system dependent part built - toolchain. Maybe it's
worth to redo the test with pre-built toolchain?

--
Mishka.