[pooma-dev] Compile Time Problems and Pooma 2

[Jeffrey Oldham]

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 02:46:58PM -0600, Dave Nystrom wrote:
> this last Friday when b18 was virtually idle except for my compiles.  The
> stunning result is that I could build either a debug or optimized version of
> the library faster on my 2 year old 366 MHz Pentium 2 laptop with 384 MBytes
> of memory than I could on an idle b18 using 16 processors.  I find this
> result to be truly stunning.  The majority of the compile time, at least 90%, 
> on b18 was spent in the backend C compiler.

I am not surprised that a Pentium is faster than b18.  When building
gcc, my sequential Linux/Pentium i686 computer runs faster than
Nirvana using ten processors.  Starting a new process under Irix seems
to be very slow and also the processors are slower.

Thanks,
Jeffrey D. Oldham
oldham at codesourcery.com