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- From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: No patchlevel 3.
- Message-ID: <Sep.7.23.58.48.1992.10214@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 03:58:50 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.215429.7866@umr.edu> <1992Sep8.002147.790@wam.umd.edu>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
-
- >Along the lines of my last questions, about the progress of Linux over
- >the Summer, I've been seeing a lot of this (5 hours to recompile
- >kernel). Is this because the kernel is bigger and GCC slower than
- >they were when we had 0.96, or are the auth}rs just running slow
- >machines? I seem to recall about 15 minutes for a recompilation.
-
- I just recompiled 0.97pl4 under itself in 12 minutes, with a bit of a
- load. Compiling the same kernel, but running under 0.97 took 13
- minutes. This is with GCC 2.2.2, on a 33MHz 486. I don't think
- kernel has slowed things down. I can't vouch for GCC, as I haven't
- gone to 2.2.2d yet. (I'm waiting for a version that will work with
- X.)
-