On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:

> It occurs to me that a better "metric" for this group might be "KCU"s or 
> "Kernel Compile Units" This could be defined as "The time it takes to do 
> 'make depend; make' in the GENERIC directory." If we assume that the 
> MicroVAX II is 1.0 KCU then we can rate machines in terms of their 
> suitability for development :-)

But the performance will also be dependent on the controller+disk being
used, the amount of RAM, and even the kernel you're running.  We'd have to
specify more than just the CPU type for the baseline rating.

-brian. 
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