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Date:      Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:08:12 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: profile Alpha kernel no-go?
Message-ID:  <15444.24108.47016.207022@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020127151325.A25384@freebie.xs4all.nl>
References:  <20020127151325.A25384@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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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

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