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Date:      Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:01:20 +0100
From:      Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?
Message-ID:  <20060203080120.GB976@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <43E30BDD.9090005@cs.tu-berlin.de>
References:  <43E2E2F1.70206@u.washington.edu> <20060203050813.GA45810@xor.obsecurity.org> <43E2F43B.1000303@u.washington.edu> <43E30BDD.9090005@cs.tu-berlin.de>

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On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Bj=F6rn K=F6nig wrote:
> Garrett Cooper schrieb:
> > Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there=
=20
> > should be a noticeable difference.
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> The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile=20
> all in all because of its modularity. A German magazine tested both: 6.9=
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> took 19 minutes and 7.0 75 minutes on their dual Opteron 246 machine=20
> with 2 GB RAM (source: iX 1/2006).

Heh :-)

But the advantage *should* be that you don't need to recompile all of
that every major upgrade. I don't know what will become of that ideal
though, only time will tell I guess.

--Stijn

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