[Pan-users] Re: compile?

[Duncan]

"Travis" <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sun, 07
Dec 2008 13:42:07 -0800:

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> From: "Kurt Schilling"
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> December 07, 2008 13:19 PM Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Re: compile?
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>> Travis wrote:
>>> I know I have a lot to learn and you have been most kind to try and
>>> help me out. Over the next few days/weeks I will try and digest what
>>> you have written and apply it to my first compile from source.
>>> 
>>> Thank you, Joe, David, Kurt & Duncan.
>> 
>> Let us know how things go. As I recall, on a PIII-866 box with 512megs
>> of RAM, it took between 20 and 30 minutes to compile Pan 0.0133. If you
>> have a more modern machine, the compile time will most likely be
>> shorter.
> 
> The processor is an Intel Atom 1.6GHz. I will post my success or more
> questions.

I have a similar netbook here but haven't really done "anything" with it 
yet.  But for compiling, memory size and disk access times can be as 
important as CPU speed, and while that PIII-8xx was more or less 
comparable speed (slower but more powerful in some ways) and the 512 MB 
memory should be comparable, the disk is going to be different, 
especially if it's an SSD with its very long write times but decent read 
and zero seek times.  Since compiling writes a lot of temp files the 
write times could be critical.  But as I said I've really not done much 
with mine yet so can't say what the real numbers are.  I'll be putting 
Gentoo on it eventually, but will be compiling on my main machine, which 
does pan in maybe five minutes (short enough it's not bothersome enough 
to have worried about it), so the slower netbook compiling won't bother 
me.

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