[Nottingham] Debian devotion [was: OE Reply Fixer]

[Simon Huggins]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:23:59AM +0000, David Bean wrote:
> > Is the i386 vs optimisations really that big a step?  Are there any
> > decent benchmarks on it in normal use for instance?
> I know my P 90 - compiled from source
> (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org) gets to a console faster than my PII
> 300 running debian woody. Both running same services.

Sorry but that's not a valid benchmark.

- was it the same kernel? (stock Debian kernels like stock anything
  kernels have lots of drivers for devices you probably don't have
  yourself for instance)
- same disk system?  SCSI takes a long time to scan.
- the initscripts were bound to be different
- same libc?  same versions of utils?  same version of compiler?

There are lots of reasons that it could be slower though I can see what
you mean intuitively.

It is vaguely interesting though in that I'd quite like my main machine
to boot quicker (though it is SCSI and the bus scan seems to take a
looooong time).  I'm sure someone somewhere must have done the start
like things in parallel things for initscripts.

> Would be nice to have a background service recompiling and optimising
> woody.  (KDE 3 took nearly a week to compile on my P90)

apt-build perhaps?  I've never tried it.

Simon.

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