On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 01:24:22PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:07:14PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I tested to see how -pipe option given to gcc affects kernel
> > build time, and got the result below:
> > 
> > 		GENERIC
> > Without -pipe:	  5:55
> > With -pipe:	  4:09
> 
> Did you remember to allow for the effect of bufferred data.
> The second build will be quicker than the first (13:12 to 11:42
> on my system without -pipe)

I did the -pipe case first. 5:55 could be even worse. ;-)

> OTOH -pipe is probably a good idea - esp. on a MP system?

FreeBSD guys seem to already know that. -pipe is used by default
on FreeBSD for source build.

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>