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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>
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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
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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