I'll try to get some statistics. It may very well be that this is just
a case of one machine having faster drives or some such.

Perry

mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu says:
> 
>    However, this brings up an interesting question --
>    why is "make depend" so slow on NetBSD? Maybe its my imagination, but
>    I could swear that "make depend" takes many times longer on a NetBSD
>    machine than on a comparable BSDI 1.1 machine.
> 
> There are many reasons that *might* be true; one of them being that we
> use GCC 2.  However, before I would believe such a claim I'd have to see
> actual statistics and the exact hardware configuration of both machines.
>