Simon Geard wrote: > On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 08:57 -0700, jasonps...@jegas.com wrote: >> Now, I wouldn't care that much except even running on a DEDICATED 32bit >> Linux (Slackware 13.37) with MAKEFLAGS set to EIGHT to use all CORES... >> it takes a while... So running the procedure twice is time >> consuming.. We're talking hours on a new i7 DELL XPS Studio (Quad Core >> with hyper-threading - its like having EIGHT CPU) > > Is 'hours' an exaggeration, or is that really what you're seeing? On a > modern machine like that, the gcc build should be something like five > minutes...
Well 5 minutes is pretty quick. I have: Chapter 5 [gcc-pass1] 8 minutes and 22 seconds Chapter 5 [gcc-pass2] 11 minutes and 37 seconds Chapter 6 [gcc ] 78 minutes and 35 seconds Using only 1 core for consistent timing. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
