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[Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

The biggest problem with doing this is the number of variables...
processor speed, RAM free, swap, HD speed, ccache, distcc,
optimisations, and configure options. I won't say it's impossible, it
may be quite possible to get a decent estimation based on bogomips and
other sys info with enough compile examples. For any reasonable
estimation though, my /guess/ is it would take a lot of data.

On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 19:28, David Kowis wrote:
> This struck me while I was installing j2sdk on one of my b0x3n. 
> 
> Could sorcery track how long it takes to install/compile programs? 
> 
> I did 'time cast -c j2sdk' just because I wanted to know how long it would 
> take,
> then the blood in my caffeenstream decided that it might be a cool thing if 
> on
> the Source Mage web page one could find out how long it takes to compile a
> program. It could be tracked and submitted automatically, via cast itself 
> when
> it runs. Or perhaps a better idea would be to create a SM-stats package 
> with a
> couple of scripts and a crontab to import so that the stats are 
> automagically
> submitted. I don't know a whole lot about bash scripts (I'm more into Java) 
> but
> I think this could be done. It doesn't take up much resources, if sorcery 
> can
> use the time command, that is. I don't pretend to know how to parse the 
> output
> of the time command into something else, at least not from bash, so this is 
> more
> of a suggestion to anyone that feels like taking it on. I also don't know 
> how
> hard it would be to add to the current sorcery suite of scripts. If it's too
> difficult, then let it go. It's not a big deal, I just thought it would be
> pretty cool/handy to go to the web page and look up how long it usually 
> takes for
> an Athlon XP 2300+ to compile XFree86. 
> 
> I hope I haven't made anyone's head explode through the reading of this. :)
> 
> find ~your -name '*base* | xargs chown :us
> 
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