Paul Rubin wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>>Paul> Anyway, I did the same build on a 2 ghz Athlon 64 and was
>>Paul> surprised that the speedup was only 35% or so. I'd have to get a
>>Paul> multiprocessor box to obtain really substantial gains.
>>
>>Maybe your build process is i/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Two hours is a long time! Maybe it takes a programmer 10 minutes to get
> his mind focused on a new project, but that still leaves 110 productive
> minutes. I think many programmers in corporate environments would
> regard 2-hour blocks as luxuries. I have wondered the s
Paul Rubin wrote:
> I'm doing something where I frequently but unpredictably (i.e. I can't
> plan for it in advance) hit a snag that requires me to rebuild a large
> project. The rebuild takes a couple hours. During that time, I'm
> twiddling my thumbs and/or posting here, i.e. not getting anythi
> about RSI). My workday is getting chopped up in a manner sort of like
> memory fragmentation in a program, where you end up with a lot of
> disjoint free regions that are individually too small to use.
One way to look at this, is that the work environment is
always fragmented. Emails, phone ca
Paul Rubin wrote:
> I'm doing something where I frequently but unpredictably (i.e. I can't
> plan for it in advance) hit a snag that requires me to rebuild a large
> project. The rebuild takes a couple hours. During that time, I'm
> twiddling my thumbs and/or posting here, i.e. not getting anyth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Paul> Anyway, I did the same build on a 2 ghz Athlon 64 and was
> Paul> surprised that the speedup was only 35% or so. I'd have to get a
> Paul> multiprocessor box to obtain really substantial gains.
>
> Maybe your build process is i/o bound. If you're usi
Paul> Anyway, I did the same build on a 2 ghz Athlon 64 and was
Paul> surprised that the speedup was only 35% or so. I'd have to get a
Paul> multiprocessor box to obtain really substantial gains.
Maybe your build process is i/o bound. If you're using GNU make and have
the make depen
Paul Rubin wrote:
> I'm doing something where I frequently but unpredictably (i.e. I can't
> plan for it in advance) hit a snag that requires me to rebuild a large
> project. The rebuild takes a couple hours. During that time, I'm
> twiddling my thumbs and/or posting here, i.e. not getting anythi
I'm doing something where I frequently but unpredictably (i.e. I can't
plan for it in advance) hit a snag that requires me to rebuild a large
project. The rebuild takes a couple hours. During that time, I'm
twiddling my thumbs and/or posting here, i.e. not getting anything
useful done. But the d
