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Message-ID: <47F7C390.3080108@tmr.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:23:12 -0400
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh.
David Miller wrote:
> From: rct@...s.com (Bob Tracy)
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:42:58 -0500 (CDT)
>
>> I don't understand this claim. On what incredibly fast piece of iron
>> can you possibly do between 8 and 16 kernel builds (the range I've
>> encountered when I do the "git bisect" dance), boot each one, and
>> evaluate the results in so small a period of time?
>
> Builds are just over a minute on my box. I can do a full
> kernel build plus reboot cycle in under 2 minutes.
>
Most of us got over "mine is bigger than yours" bragging at about age
13. He said "laptop," that means slow builds, slow installs, slow boots,
and unless he's on a fat net pipe to a faster machine, build elsewhere
isn't much of a saving.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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