[ale] BogoMips uselsess?

Clay Lawrence servo at bellsouth.net
Tue May 4 23:21:41 EDT 1999


My dual P2-400 reports 800 bogomips and was compiled with GNU gcc. I've
done a make dep; make clean; make bzimage in three minutes.

Clay
"Glenn R. Stone" wrote:

> Byron A Jeff wrote:

> Which leads me to the following related question:  is GNU make(1) smart enough
> to take advantage of SMP?  I remember at GaTech we had a Sequent Symmetry we
> could kick off make -P and snarf all ten processors on the thing.... emacs
> compiled in a trice.  One would love to turn a quad-Xeon loose on the kernel
> recompile.... can you say, way sub-sixty-seconds?
> 
> -- Glenn






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