Re: More RAM or quicker CPU?

From: Karsten Kruse (tecneeq_at_gmx.net)
Date: 02/22/05

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    Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:00:42 +0100

    A L Meyers wrote:
    > Have a dual-processor i686 main board at 400 MH with 128 MB of physical
    > RAM. All other things being equal, to speed up compilation, e.g. doing
    > "make update" in glibc (took 3 days and completely successfully), would
    > it help more to double RAM to 256 MB or double processor speed?

    You can save 100% compilation time by not compiling glibc, you don't need
    it to run NetBSD.

    I guess the jump from 400 MHz to 800 MHz is far more effective than from
    128 MB Ram to 256 MB Ram.

    Karsten 

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