Subject: Re: Random musings on the relative speed of things
To: Brian Chase <vaxzilla@jarai.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/10/2003 00:26:30
On Dec 10, 2003, at 12:24 AM, Brian Chase wrote:
>>> 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. :)
>
> Nah, we just need to port NetBSD/sgimips to it.

   Now that would be an interesting trick.  These systems are *complex*.

       -Dave

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