From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jan 27 12: 8:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29E1237B402 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:08:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA19589; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:08:42 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g0RK8Cc85329; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:08:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15444.24108.47016.207022@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:08:12 -0500 (EST) To: Wilko Bulte Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: profile Alpha kernel no-go? In-Reply-To: <20020127151325.A25384@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20020127151325.A25384@freebie.xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wilko Bulte writes: > Hi > > Triggered by a remark from Murray that building the Alpha > world takes so much longer than the x86 one I just tried That's because the gcc backend for alpha is much more expensive than it is for x86. Try cross-building an x86 world on alpha & see how much faster it is. > if I can build a profiled kernel on the Alpha. I use iprobe for kernel profiling. I've never tried slow profiling on alpha.. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message