Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:33:14 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Reilly <reilly@zeta.org.au> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: taob@nbc.netcom.ca, current@FreeBSD.ORG, reilly@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: Worldstone Continued... Message-ID: <199803220833.TAA14256@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980321140900.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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On 21 Mar, Simon Shapiro wrote: > My very humble opinion is that we are barking up the wrong tree. Disk I/O > is not the limiting factor here. I am looking at disk bandwidth > utilization of less than 20%. From idle observation, it appears that > parsing Makefiles is 4-5 times the amount of time it takes to actually > compile anything. > > The curious could take the kernel directory and write a simple script to > compile it without make at all. Tell us the results. For the kernel, that's nothing more than the output of make -n. I think that building a script for make buildworld could be a little trickier. I'm a little surprised that you think that make itself is so expensive. -- Andrew "The steady state of disks is full." -- Ken Thompson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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