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From: rcb@ccpv1.ncsu.edu (Randy Buckland)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: GCC for X11R4 clients
Keywords: X11R4 compile times
Message-ID: <1990Mar21.132514.25639@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 90 13:25:14 GMT
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rmtodd@uokmax.uucp (Richard Michael Todd) writes:

>In article <1990Mar20.191933.1792@cs.cmu.edu> dpm@cs.cmu.edu (David Maynard) writes:
>>P.S. I'm impressed!  The R4 "make World" only took ~19 hours on a 4 meg
>>Sun-2/120.  If I recall correctly, the R3 compile took closer to 25 hours.
>  It took ~12 hours on my Mac IIx with 4M of memory.  From the system stats
>programs I ran it looks like a good deal of the time was spent paging (gcc
>is a big memory hog).  Haven't tried a Make World since I upgraded to 8M,
>but I suspect it'll go a whole lot faster...

It's statistics/benchmark time. What was the compile times for tape1 of
X11R4 on your machine? For a Vaxstation 3100, 16M memory, Ultrix 3.1,
Ultrix cc compiler, time was just over 5 hours.

How about the times on some of the RISC machines? This seems like a good
real world test of performance.

Randy Buckland
rcb@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu