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Subject: Re: Kernel Compile slow on 5.x series?
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Barner" <barner@gmx.de>
To: "Markie" <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com>
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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!