On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 12:31:17AM -0700, Stan Johnson wrote: > On 2/6/23 8:25 PM, Finn Thain wrote: > > > > These systems are too slow for needless key generation so a bug report > > may be needed. > > > > The Mac IIci (25 MHz) is only about 50% faster that the SE/30 (16 MHz). > The Debian kernel booted on the IIci, though it took somewhere between > 30 and 60 minutes. If it were just slowness, shouldn't the SE/30 be > expected to boot in about 60 to 120 minutes (I let it run for 3 hours)? >
Is the optional L2 cache card installed in your IIci? If so, that could give a really big performance boost on something like this. I suspect the key generation routines and data don't fit in the tiny L1 cache in a 68030, but would fit easily in the L2 cache. Any older models like the SE/30 weren't designed to be able to have an L2 cache. This difference alone could probably double or triple the performance even without the clock speed change.
