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Date:      Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:01:15 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: profile Alpha kernel no-go?
Message-ID:  <20020127220115.A30625@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <15444.24108.47016.207022@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:08:12PM -0500
References:  <20020127151325.A25384@freebie.xs4all.nl> <15444.24108.47016.207022@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:08:12PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Wilko Bulte writes:
>  > Hi
>  > 
>  > Triggered by a remark from Murray that building the Alpha
>  > world takes so much longer than the x86 one I just tried
> 
> That's because the gcc backend for alpha is much more expensive than
> it is for x86.  Try cross-building an x86 world on alpha & see how
> much faster it is.

That is interesting! I'd really like to try that. Is it documented
somewhere how one performs a x-build?

>  > if I can build a profiled kernel on the Alpha. 
> 
> I use iprobe for kernel profiling.  I've never tried slow profiling on
> alpha..

Well.. you can't ;)

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