Subject: Re: 3.0 Very Slow?
To: None <cinnion@ka8zrt.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/18/2006 16:15:31
Douglas Wade Needham <cinnion@ka8zrt.com> writes:
> Greetings John, and the rest of the NetBSD community,
>
> I don't think it is just the sun3 port.  I did a build of a set of
> pkgsrc packages about three weeks ago with a 2.1.0 kernel, and the
> build took 76913 seconds.  Then, I noticed that 3.0 was available, and
> after making changes to my build wrapper scripts, building 3.0 into my
> sandbox, and upgrading to the 3.0 kernel, I started the same exact
> build for 3.0, and the build is still going after 186920 seconds!!!

Compare the gcc versions in both releases. If I remember correctly,
there was an "upgrade", resulting in much longer compile times. (Every
version of gcc seems much slower than the last.)

Perry