On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Björn König wrote: > Garrett Cooper schrieb: > > Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there > > should be a noticeable difference. > > The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile > all in all because of its modularity. A German magazine tested both: 6.9 > took 19 minutes and 7.0 75 minutes on their dual Opteron 246 machine > with 2 GB RAM (source: iX 1/2006).
Heh :-)
But the advantage *should* be that you don't need to recompile all of
that every major upgrade. I don't know what will become of that ideal
though, only time will tell I guess.
--Stijn
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