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- From: bde@runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans)
- Subject: Re: Kernel build benchmark
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.055419.2985@runx.oz.au>
- Organization: RUNX Un*x Timeshare. Sydney, Australia.
- References: <1992Dec22.143145.24737@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <TERJEVE.93Jan3211242@kolsaas.ifi.uio.no> <1993Jan3.213923.23125@epas.toronto.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 05:54:19 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.213923.23125@epas.toronto.edu> meggin@epas.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes:
- >
- >Well, it used to take me a good 1/2 hour to remake the Minix kernel
- >on my old 8mhz Atari ST, but then again, I didn't spend 45 minutes
- >counting the seconds and composing postings about the time, so by
- >my reckoning, I was still at least 22.5 minutes ahead of either of
- >you. ;-)
-
- The current Minix 386 kernel takes 51 sec to compile on a 486/33/8MB.
- It takes 135 sec using gcc-2.3.2 -O. The Minix kernel is not the full
- system but it is about 1/2 as big as the full linux-0.99 kernel. Linux
- takes about 8-10 min to compile on the same machine. Older version of
- the Minix kernel compiled in about a minute on a 386/20/2MB/slow disks.
- There were fewer modules and far fewer header files then.
- --
- Bruce Evans (bde@runx.oz.au)
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