Apparently, On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:55:03AM -0500,
Andrew Gallatin said words to the effect of;
>
> David O'Brien writes:
> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:39:15PM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> > > You can also get various new machines on sun.com for around $1000 USD,
> > > IIRC a 500mhz blade 100 does a buildworld in around 2-3 hours.
> >
> > A $1000 (new) 500 MHz blade running GENERIC (minus WITNESS) builds world
> > in a little under 3 hours.
>
> Or just a little slower than my 4 year old 500MHz 21264 (<$1000 used)
> alpha. Darn. I was hoping a reasonbly priced sparc64 would be fast
> enough that getting one would allow me to find LP64 problems quicker
> due to a faster buildworld cycle. It's really frustrating to get 2+
> hours into a buildworld and have it die because of a problem in
> usr.sbin
>
> I guess we'll need to wait for x86-64 for that.
Cross build on a fast x86 box... My 1.2ghz athlon running -stable builds
a sparc64 world in about half an hour.
Jake
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