On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 03:27:02AM +0530, Subhro wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 15:45:31 +0200, Simon Barner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Markie wrote: > > > Has anyone else noticed that the 5.x series kernel compile times take much > > > longer than that of the 4.x series? My friends 233MHz machine running 4.x > > > finished a kernel compile before my 500MHz machine running 5.x a while > > > back. It seems to take forever? Is there a reason for this, or is it just > > > me seeing this problem? > > The reason why it takes longer to compile a 5.* kernel is the > difference in the architecture. The 5.* kernels handle the hardware > differently than the 4.* kernels.
No, the previous poster was correct. It's mostly just gcc 3 being slower to compile code than gcc 2. > > FreeBSD 5 uses GCC 3.x as system compiler, whereas 4 is based on GCC > > 2.y. > > Negative, the gcc 3.* compiler is used only in FreeBSD versions onwards 5.3. No, gcc 3.x was imported into FreeBSD 5.x a few years ago (you could check cvsweb if you want the exact date). Kris
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