On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:52:30PM -0700, Brian Morris wrote:
thus given a g4 that was 3x faster than the g3, it could only
possibly
reduce
this time to 18seconds (another 10%)
the 3.5 times improvement of the compile time is great, but it is not
even using more than 25% of the 250mhz g3. I wonder what the mac
is doing during the 15 seconds, for a one page routine.
statistically it
is a very solid number, the example from the text i compiled about
a hundred routines and the number was not varying at all as Iwatched
it go for a while.
The mac is running the C preprocesor before sending the preprocessed
output to distcc, and eventually is running the linker when requested.
If you use libtool, it will also waste time executing the libtool
shell-script for each files.
Cheers,