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- From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
- Subject: Re: New 486 Suggestions?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.180211.24228@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
- Organization: You must be kidding!
- References: <Aug.23.18.56.56.1992.8507@gauss.rutgers.edu> <pdhatchm.715057547@syzygy>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:02:11 GMT
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- In article <pdhatchm.715057547@syzygy> of comp.os.linux,
- pdhatchm@socs.uts.edu.au (Io's Hatchet) writes:
- >
- > In my experience with Linux a faster CPU is a BIG advantage.
- >
- > Someone preveously mentioned it taking a 486-33 12 minutes to do a
- > "make clean ; make dep ; make".
- >
- > My 486-50 does this in just over 4 mins.
- >
-
- Timeout! 12x50/33 = 8! Obviously, the fast CPU in your machine cannot be
- the *only* reason why things are going faster for you. Memory, cache size,
- disk speed, _data_layout_on_disk_ also make a difference. I haven't timed
- my machine (a 486/33 with 8 Mb RAM and a 12 ms Fujitsu IDE HD), but my
- estimate is about 6 min.
-
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