On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:52:30PM -0700, Brian Morris wrote: > thus given a g4 that was 3x faster than the g3, it could only possibly > reduce > this time to 18seconds (another 10%) > > the 3.5 times improvement of the compile time is great, but it is not > even using more than 25% of the 250mhz g3. I wonder what the mac > is doing during the 15 seconds, for a one page routine. statistically it > is a very solid number, the example from the text i compiled about > a hundred routines and the number was not varying at all as Iwatched > it go for a while.
The mac is running the C preprocesor before sending the preprocessed output to distcc, and eventually is running the linker when requested. If you use libtool, it will also waste time executing the libtool shell-script for each files. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
