From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 29 12:13: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A91DE37B4B8 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:13:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD3043E75 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:13:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g9TKCp7M089454; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:12:51 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <2570443.1035916854787.JavaMail.wshttp@emss03g01.ems.lmco.com> References: <2570443.1035916854787.JavaMail.wshttp@emss03g01.ems.lmco.com> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:12:50 -0500 To: Raymond Kohler , current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: questions about the state of current Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:40 AM -0700 10/29/02, Raymond Kohler wrote: >I'm now a stable user, and I'm considering moving to current to >get a jump on upgrading and help with the testing effort. Note that -current is a much wilder place than -stable. >I have some questions about its performance: > >1) How is the speed compared to stable? I remember it being just >too slow some months ago and was wondering how it was improving. Seems OK to me. Note that it's using a newer version of gcc, and that definitely takes longer than the 2.92 version on -stable. So, if you do a lot of compiling then -current will definitely be slower for you. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message