Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:25:31AM -0400, kas wrote: > >> that the book changed that much. 64 bit was run from the CD whereas the 32 >> bit build was run from the CD installed on a hard drive. >> > > This would kind of skew the accurateness of your test. Reads performed > on a CD filesystem are noticeably slower than those from a hard disk. For 90% accurate results, please boot the CDs with the "toram" argument. In this case, the hard disk would indeed be slower than the CD image in memory :) Building LFS in tmpfs (assuming that you have enough RAM) adds the missing 9%.
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