Re: Life at 4 bogomips
George Bonser writes:
> Man, I think maybe the maintainers should be forced to install their
> stuff on a 386 just to get some perspective. CPU horsepower sure can
> cover up inefficient code. Or to put it another way, an system without
> any CPU horsepower sure exposes the inefficiencies.
Hmm. A few months back I was running Hamm on my test box (386DX33 with 8M).
It was slow, but not anywhere near as slow as you describe. It did take
several hours to complete a dselect run, but I blame that on the old
Mitsumi 1X CD drive.
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