From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 22 11:10:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10706 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 11:10:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10700 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 11:10:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@zeta.org.au) Received: from gurney.reilly.home (d18.syd2.zeta.org.au [203.26.11.18]) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA12761; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 06:06:29 +1100 Received: (from andrew@localhost) by gurney.reilly.home (8.8.8/8.8.5) id TAA14256; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:33:14 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Reilly Message-Id: <199803220833.TAA14256@gurney.reilly.home> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:33:14 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: Worldstone Continued... To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org cc: taob@nbc.netcom.ca, current@FreeBSD.ORG, reilly@zeta.org.au In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21 Mar, Simon Shapiro wrote: > My very humble opinion is that we are barking up the wrong tree. Disk I/O > is not the limiting factor here. I am looking at disk bandwidth > utilization of less than 20%. From idle observation, it appears that > parsing Makefiles is 4-5 times the amount of time it takes to actually > compile anything. > > The curious could take the kernel directory and write a simple script to > compile it without make at all. Tell us the results. For the kernel, that's nothing more than the output of make -n. I think that building a script for make buildworld could be a little trickier. I'm a little surprised that you think that make itself is so expensive. -- Andrew "The steady state of disks is full." -- Ken Thompson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message