Re: Utility of PV on non-obsolete hardware

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 01:05:09PM +0200, Torbjörn Granlund wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> writes:
> 
>   that's strange. On my use cases (e.g. pkgsec bulk builds), the 32bit guests
>   are significantly faster.
> 
> Perhaps my load and your load are quite different?
> 
> A GNU autoconf + libtool based build might not exercise the compiler as
> much as one might assume, but instead spend lots of cycles in /bin/sh
> through first the configure script and later through countless
> invocations of the libtool script.

Yes, and the pbulk scan itelf does lots of fork/exec/exit

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