Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 17:02:57 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Compile slow on 5.x series? Message-ID: <20041003000256.GA64736@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <b2807d04041002145767aa9a1@mail.gmail.com> References: <001d01c4a883$f65bf3e0$f700000a@ape> <20041002134531.GB57007@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <b2807d04041002145767aa9a1@mail.gmail.com>
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--cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 03:27:02AM +0530, Subhro wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 15:45:31 +0200, Simon Barner <barner@gmx.de> wrote: > > 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? >=20 > The reason why it takes longer to compile a 5.* kernel is the > difference in the architecture. The 5.* kernels handle the hardware > differently than the 4.* kernels. No, the previous poster was correct. It's mostly just gcc 3 being slower to compile code than gcc 2. > > FreeBSD 5 uses GCC 3.x as system compiler, whereas 4 is based on GCC > > 2.y. >=20 > Negative, the gcc 3.* compiler is used only in FreeBSD versions onwards 5= .3.=20 No, gcc 3.x was imported into FreeBSD 5.x a few years ago (you could check cvsweb if you want the exact date). Kris --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBX0GwWry0BWjoQKURAtqEAKCscPu4DyLU2ScZDjVZqqiD5EkvqwCeKWyX J/UA2Tz2EhqxIW6jqm4/bM8= =7cYX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e--
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