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Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> On Monday 29 March 2010, Christopher Howard elucidated thus:
>> So, at work I'm setting up a Gentoo system on an HP with an i7
>> processor (with eight virtual cores). I passed in -j7 as a make
>> option, and it built the whole bloody kernel, modules and everything,
>> in five minutes. Sweetness.
>
> Five? Wow...I seem to remember Linus T. bragging back in the day that
> his four processor system (this was when multi-CPU systems, especially
>> 2, were especially rare) only took 2.5 minutes. Must be seriously
> I/O bound.
>
> Can I find a citation for that? No...just going off memory.
>
> j
>
Really? Guess I'm just used to the hour/two-hour jobs on all my old
dual-cores and Pentium IIIs at home. I only passed in the -j7 makeopt...
probably could have tweaked it more.
Of course, there probably wasn't quite as much source code to build back
then...
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Christopher Howard
http://linuxprogrammingforums.com
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http://theologia.indicium.us
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