From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 05:36:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC1C106566C for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 05:36:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1DD88FC1B for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 05:36:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxi39 with SMTP id 39so189923vxi.13 for ; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:36:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=RW8pW6pcGSovLh3fawsrSc9SS7oraPsOHzSbSstPlrE=; b=iiXSsDp4btISx/22JvPd0b9svklyWLcm/pvTT0h7zGizEG9zSYttaWy6/jXuPliSne O/8gyqLJ6c/Oq7MQCijWgMwltlMD3YkDCYyddTL+METwVFg8XXDCVI8dEFhUeCGF1tYO iYdVdjFLnwAR/8QqNkgpw57wrnvTtSd1Vpucc= Received: by 10.52.65.75 with SMTP id v11mr275446vds.176.1315460192088; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:36:32 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.180.72 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 22:36:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110908045328.C6E2E1EE8F1@keeper.homelinux.org> References: <20110908045328.C6E2E1EE8F1@keeper.homelinux.org> From: Eitan Adler Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 01:36:02 -0400 Message-ID: To: schaecsn@gmx.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The cost of a source based package system X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:36:33 -0000 On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Stefan Schaeckeler wrot= e: > Hi all, please don't take this posting too serious. I was just curious ..= . Thanks for the disclaimer. > . Among other things, I measured the "cost of a source based package syst= em", i.e. I was comparing the energy cost of installing ports from source v= s binary packages (setup, see below). Make sure to measure multiple times, with a cold cache, and calculate =CE=B1 and p values ;) .... > The number of ports and binary packages varies slightly. I don't know why= . This only introduces a small error. Likely due to "build dependencies" which are not needed when installing via packages. --=20 Eitan Adler