> I have found that compiling is a disk-bound activity since about > 1988, on every system I've used...When I build a Linux kernel, the > disk is continuously bumping along.
You are atypical. On my system, for any given build I do, all the files fit in core and are already in the cache if I've done a previous compile recently, and the only disk activity is writing of new bits that the computation rarely blocks on. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
