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Xref: sserve comp.os.minix:22405 comp.os.386bsd.misc:542 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3422 comp.os.linux:45833 Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!eur.nl!pk From: pk@cs.few.eur.nl (Paul Kranenburg) Subject: Re: Choosing a Unix like OS for a pc Message-ID: <1993Jun30.202959.19447@cs.few.eur.nl> Sender: news@cs.few.eur.nl Reply-To: pk@cs.few.eur.nl Organization: Erasmus University Rotterdam References: <1993Jun19.125224.17510@colorado.edu> <C8wC29.9qq@world.std.com><201f9p$kkv@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <PCG.93Jun25164008@decb.aber.ac.uk> <1993Jun29.044302.6464@spcvxb.spc.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 20:29:59 GMT Lines: 21 In <1993Jun29.044302.6464@spcvxb.spc.edu> terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) writes: >In article <PCG.93Jun25164008@decb.aber.ac.uk>, pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: >> The Princeton/ATT 'lcc' compiler is extremely small, and much faster >> than 'gcc'. 'gcc' is a monstrosity. >> > I just made a BSDI kernel (presumably about the same size as a 386BSD or >NetBSD kernel). The "make depend" took 56 seconds elapsed and the "make" >took a little bit under 5 minutes elapsed. I say "a little bit under" as >ntp was adjusting the clock, so the reported time was off by a few seconds. > This was on a 486DX2-66, Adaptec 1542B, Seagate ST42400N drive. This was Just for fun I timed a complete rebuild of the NetBSD kernel using a (gcc 1.39) cross-compiler on a SparcStation 10: 1 minute and 50 seconds. Unsurprisingly, my kernel version number is now 0.1.219 :-) -pk