Kris Kennaway wrote: > One thing that probably confuses and misleads a lot of people is when > they build world or a kernel and notice that it's taking much longer > than it did under 4.x, so they assume this means that 5.x is slower > than 4.x. It doesn't. What it means is that 5.x and 4.x have > different C compilers, and gcc 3.x is much slower at compiling code > than gcc 2.x. You have to be very careful to draw conclusions based > on subjective assessments like this.
Another thing might be that interactive response time seems to be worse. While I (or rather ports) unpack the firefox/thunderbird source, the machine is pretty much bogged down (mouse cursor jumps around, audio stutters...). Haven't seen that on FreeBSD since the 386 days. mkb. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
