From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 11 17:55:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA29837 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:55:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA29831 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:55:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA09028; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:54:25 -0700 (PDT) To: Tony Kimball cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pgcc kernel compiles automated In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:53:25 CDT." <199604111953.OAA01369@compound.think.com> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:54:25 -0700 Message-ID: <9025.829270465@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have not benchmarked. This is a personal machine, so reality means > nothing to me, merely perception. That having been said, I will > repeat my earlier comment: It's a more noticable difference (and the > more so since a make world and rebuilding emacs) than was changing > from a 5x86-120GP/UMC MoBo to a P-100/Triton. I really do wish that you could run some benchmarks to test this out. The human brain is notorious for altering incoming data to fit preconceptions, and I hardly think that I need to tell you that your perceived "noticable difference" is about as credible as Uri Geller bending spoons in a bench press. We need some hard numbers here. Jordan