From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 3 10:57:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C136E16A420 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:57:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7702A43D48 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:57:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k13AvOrj003318; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 02:57:24 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 02:57:27 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <43E2E2F1.70206@u.washington.edu> <43E2F43B.1000303@u.washington.edu> <43E30BDD.9090005@cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <43E30BDD.9090005@cs.tu-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602030257.27685.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper , =?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= Subject: Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:57:33 -0000 On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:53, Bj=F6rn K=F6nig wrote: > Garrett Cooper schrieb: > > Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), > > there should be a noticeable difference. > > The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile > all in all because of its modularity. A German magazine tested both: > 6.9 took 19 minutes and 7.0 75 minutes on their dual Opteron 246 > machine with 2 GB RAM (source: iX 1/2006). Differences like that usually point out a poor interaction between the=20 files and the make process. For example, if you provide the compiler=20 with a list of files, you may only have to load the compiler once but=20 you can compile many modules. If you use make and load the compiler=20 many times, it will take much longer to build a system.=20 We had one program that the computer center manager tried to build and=20 after 7 hours, he killed the job. It was only half way done. I=20 suggested Microsoft's Power Fortran which loaded once and compiled=20 many. The MS Fortran compiler completed the build in 2 minutes. It took=20 me around 30 minutes to figure out that it had compiled everything.=20 MS Power Fortran went on to be DEC's Fortran for PCs and I don't know=20 what it called now. CPU speeds and HD speeds were much slower when this=20 happened. Kent =2D-=20 Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://www.soyandina.com/ "I am Andean project". http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html