On 6/17/05, Steve Crosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SBU's are a wild-ass guess. The methodology of calculating SBU's is fine, > but the application of someone else's build time measurements bear only > rough resemblance to my system - specifically because of architecture, > disk, memory, CPU cache differences etc. Do we really need to care about > <10% variances in build times for the initial SBU, when you can get greater > variance than that due to other variables in the system. > > (The point being, should we really care that much about how accurate the > SBU is, given it's a finger in the air, rough-guide anyway....) >
+1. My thoughts exactly, though I doubt if I could have said it so appropriately. -- Tushar Teredesai http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ http://www.geocities.com/tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
