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To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>,
        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, smp@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Some SMP timing tests.
References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971103094335.7198A-100000@picnic.mat.net>
From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: 03 Nov 1997 19:07:18 +0100
In-Reply-To: Chuck Robey's message of Mon, 3 Nov 1997 09:44:23 -0500 (EST)
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Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> writes:
> > > /usr/bin/time -l make -j 12 buildworld:
> > >      5389.14 real      3229.98 user      2902.01 sys
> > > With patched Makefile and bsd.subdir.mk, same command:
> > >      2780.55 real      1696.39 user      1571.73 sys
> > I doubt that the patch can reduce the time up to 50%.
> I wondered about that too, but I made the conditions as identical as I
> could.  I wonder what I missed?

Did you compare the size of the obj trees? Both should have the same
size...

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Wolfram Schneider   <wosch@apfel.de>   http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/