On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:09:41PM +0900, Toru Nishimura wrote:
> R3000@25MHz is beaten by 486DX2-66, and rugs behind any 68040.

from a build of 1.6.2 on my decstation 5000/200 (25MHz R3000):

Build started at: Fri Feb 20 12:24:13 PST 2004
Build finished at: Tue Feb 24 13:06:15 PST 2004

release took roughly another day.

for comparison, my 750MHz athlon:

Build started at: Sat Feb 21 07:17:37 PST 2004
Build finished at: Sat Feb 21 09:45:29 PST 2004

> Redesigning pmap.c for MIPS processor will improve fast
> responsiveness.

it would be much appreciated.  I still use a 5000/240 as my main server
due to its high reliability and ruggedness, but of course any extra
speedup would be appreciated.  (even i386 doesn't have ECC error
notification yet.)

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