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- From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
- To: Aaron Brice <abrice2 AT cox.net>
- Cc: Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ <cerise AT littlegreenmen.armory.com>, sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices
- Date: 22 Jul 2002 01:47:37 -0400
If you do this, you'd better specify what mozilla modules you are
compiling... mail/news, chatzilla, rocky road java or whatever, ... as
well as optimizations and gcc version.
On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 21:24, Aaron Brice wrote:
> Would be easy and interesting to compare. I have a 1.2 GHz Athlon with
> 384M of memory. I'll do a "time cast -c -r mozilla" and compare it to a
> "time make" of the mozilla source in my home directory. People with
> lower and higher performance computers could maybe do the same..
>
> On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 15:54, Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ wrote:
> > Glenn Shannon insolently stated:
> >
> > > I believe the choice to use tmpfs was because compiling in memory is
> > > faster.
> >
> > Ahh yes, I've heard this myth. It sounds nice, doesn't it? Almost
> > believable. I think there's good reason to doubt it though.
> > In theory, compiling memory is faster because memory access is
> > faster than disk access.
> > In practice, where you've just unloaded a rather large tarball on
> > memory, it seems destined to end up in swap which will incur disk
> > access. Two of them at minimum in fact. One to write to virtual
> > memory, the other to read it back out.
> > I'm ignoring lots of other factors considering that disk access is
> > an order of magnitude slower than CPU time. It seems like disk access
> > is the thing to measure here. With that in mind, it seems like using
> > tempfs (which isn't exactly the most sophisticated fs in the world...)
> > over your native filesystem (which will almost certainly be more
> > sophisticated than tempfs and should have faster algorithmic run times)
> > is going to hopelessly slow things down.
> >
> > -Phil/CERisE
> >
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Re: [SM-Discuss] My experiance with Gnome2 so far...
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- Re: [SM-Discuss] My experiance with Gnome2 so far..., Jon Svendsen, 07/22/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Submission process, Eric Sandall, 07/22/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Submission process, Aaron Brice, 07/23/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] most annoying ...,
Hugo Portela, 07/22/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] most annoying ..., bluebird, 07/22/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Sergey A. Lipnevich, 07/21/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ, 07/21/2002
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RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Glenn Shannon, 07/21/2002
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RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ, 07/21/2002
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RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Aaron Brice, 07/21/2002
- RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices, Dufflebunk, 07/22/2002
- RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices, ML, 07/22/2002
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RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Aaron Brice, 07/23/2002
- RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices, Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ, 07/23/2002
- RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices, ML, 07/22/2002
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RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Aaron Brice, 07/21/2002
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RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Jon Svendsen, 07/22/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Julian v. Bock, 07/22/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Eric Sandall, 07/22/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices, Julian v. Bock, 07/22/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Eric Sandall, 07/22/2002
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RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ, 07/23/2002
- RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices, Aaron Brice, 07/23/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Julian v. Bock, 07/22/2002
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RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ, 07/21/2002
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RE: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Glenn Shannon, 07/21/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] License Choices,
Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ, 07/21/2002
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