----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Barner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Markie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 2:45 PM Subject: Re: Kernel Compile slow on 5.x series?
Markie wrote: >> Has anyone else noticed that the 5.x series kernel compile times take much >> longer than that of the 4.x series? My friends 233MHz machine running 4.x >> finished a kernel compile before my 500MHz machine running 5.x a while >> back. It seems to take forever? Is there a reason for this, or is it just >> me seeing this problem? > >FreeBSD 5 uses GCC 3.x as system compiler, whereas 4 is based on GCC >2.y. > >Due to enhenced code optimization, support for modern language features >and other things the _compilation_ times increased considerably in the newk >version of the compiler (the resulting code is often much faster). > >Fortunately, things are getting better with the most recent compilers from >the GCC 3.x series. > >Simon > Oh right, that's fair enough then :-) Thanks very much! _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
