Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:58:29 +0100 From: "Markie" <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com> To: "Simon Barner" <barner@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Compile slow on 5.x series? Message-ID: <003201c4a887$e6605220$f700000a@ape> References: <001d01c4a883$f65bf3e0$f700000a@ape> <20041002134531.GB57007@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Barner" <barner@gmx.de> To: "Markie" <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 2:45 PM Subject: Re: Kernel Compile slow on 5.x series? Markie wrote: >> Has anyone else noticed that the 5.x series kernel compile times take much >> longer than that of the 4.x series? My friends 233MHz machine running 4.x >> finished a kernel compile before my 500MHz machine running 5.x a while >> back. It seems to take forever? Is there a reason for this, or is it just >> me seeing this problem? > >FreeBSD 5 uses GCC 3.x as system compiler, whereas 4 is based on GCC >2.y. > >Due to enhenced code optimization, support for modern language features >and other things the _compilation_ times increased considerably in the newk >version of the compiler (the resulting code is often much faster). > >Fortunately, things are getting better with the most recent compilers from >the GCC 3.x series. > >Simon > Oh right, that's fair enough then :-) Thanks very much!
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