[plug] New Toys

[Peter Wright]

On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 02:17:18PM +0800, Gary Allpike wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, John Breen wrote:
> 
> > The novelty of faster kernel compiles NEVER wears off.  My pentium does it
> > in about 15 minutes, my old 386 used to take 2 hours plus.
> 
> How does 3mins, 13 seconds sound for 2.2.12 and modules :)

It sounds despicably fast. Yum.

A friend of mine informs me that a kernel compile on his 386 with 4meg RAM
took about three _days_.

He described the moment after it had finished compiling (for the first
time) thusly: "... and then suddenly - the disk thrashing stopped..."

:)

> regards
> 
> Gary

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