[rescue] Re: Fast alphas

Robert Novak rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Jun 15 13:26:42 CDT 2001


On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:

> > > I woudl kill for an alpha box newer than this 3000-600.
> > 
> > you haven't lived until you've seen a DS-10 blow through a NetBSD kernel
> > compile in 48 seconds.
> 
> Grumble... grumble....  and the same compile on an MVII crate at 0.9 vups
> takes 24+ hours!  Grumble....grumble....
> 
> I would think the machine was broken, if it compiled in 48 seconds!

Easy to do.

# make CC=/bin/rm 2>/dev/null 

:-)

(Wow, it optimizes diskspace too!)

--Rob (who may get that multia hooked up tonight, or at least throw
	FreeBSD on his 250 4/266)

-- 
Robert Novak, Indyramp Consulting * rnovak at indyramp.com * indyramp.com/~rnovak
        "And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
           Maybe this year will be better than the last...." -- counting crows




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