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Date:      Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:54:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make job.c job.h main.c make.1 make.
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020413175434.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020413204233.GB16245@FreeBSD.ORG>

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On 13-Apr-2002 J. Mallett wrote:
> Just finished FreeBSD buildworld, both builds were logged and timed, there
> is a minute gain with NetBSD make(1), and I'm not sure how much of that is
> random variance...  Anyway, there are some differences in the way things
> went, mostly related to how .CURDIR is set, it appears.  I've gotta crash
> for the night, but it looks like 95% of the stuff works exactly the same
> in both places.

You can help eliminate the random variance by doing several (say 20 or more) of
each test then compute various statistics to truly compare them.  Just doing
one of each test doesn't really mean much.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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