From: Andreas Klemm (andreas@knobel.GUN.de)
Date: 07/03/93


From: andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm)
Subject: Re: Choosing a Unix like OS for a pc
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1993 18:21:07 GMT

In <1993Jun30.202959.19447@cs.few.eur.nl> pk@cs.few.eur.nl (Paul Kranenburg) writes:

|In <1993Jun29.044302.6464@spcvxb.spc.edu> terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) writes:

|>In article <PCG.93Jun25164008@decb.aber.ac.uk>, pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
|>> The Princeton/ATT 'lcc' compiler is extremely small, and much faster
|>> than 'gcc'. 'gcc' is a monstrosity.
|>>

|> I just made a BSDI kernel (presumably about the same size as a 386BSD or
|>NetBSD kernel). The "make depend" took 56 seconds elapsed and the "make"
|>took a little bit under 5 minutes elapsed. I say "a little bit under" as
|>ntp was adjusting the clock, so the reported time was off by a few seconds.

|> This was on a 486DX2-66, Adaptec 1542B, Seagate ST42400N drive. This was

|Just for fun I timed a complete rebuild of the NetBSD kernel using a (gcc 1.39)
|cross-compiler on a SparcStation 10: 1 minute and 50 seconds.

5:30 on an 486/50/16Mb ISA with aha1542 and 1.05 GB Hp Fast SCSI II disk.
Not too bad ?!

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