From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jan 27 13: 1:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2A1037B404 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:01:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0RL1Fb30641; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:01:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:01:15 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: profile Alpha kernel no-go? Message-ID: <20020127220115.A30625@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20020127151325.A25384@freebie.xs4all.nl> <15444.24108.47016.207022@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15444.24108.47016.207022@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:08:12PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:08:12PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > 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. That is interesting! I'd really like to try that. Is it documented somewhere how one performs a x-build? > > if I can build a profiled kernel on the Alpha. > > I use iprobe for kernel profiling. I've never tried slow profiling on > alpha.. Well.. you can't ;) -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message