linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh.

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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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