On Dec 10, 2003, at 12:03 AM, Simon Burge wrote:
>> What I'm wondering though is, how long does this sort of compile take
>> to run on a more contemporary system?  Only a few seconds?  (That's a
>> rhetorical question.)
>
> FWIW, a lightly loaded dual 2.8GHz Xeon with 2GB of ram builds vax
> GENERIC with "nbmake-vax -j4" in
>
> 	122.045u 55.523s 1:27.89 202.0% 0+0k 22+5489io 4pf+0w

   What we need to do is really frob the build system to run on a 
completely different OS.  I just brought up a sixteen-processor SGI 
Origin 2000 with 4GB of RAM here. :)

         -Dave

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Dave McGuire                      "My tummy hurts now, but my soul
St. Petersburg, FL                 feels a little better."     -Ed