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From: john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>
To: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Making diff(1) of linux kernels faster
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 19:51:55 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011014195154.A5511@higherplane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BC953B5.18870B14@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <3BC953B5.18870B14@yahoo.com>

On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 04:58:29AM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> So, with the cold cache, my patch cut the time by a factor of 5(!!)
> and the amount of audible death growls from the disk is also reduced.  
> In the warm case, you pay a slight penalty since the simple hack
> doesn't try to keep the file data around while priming the cache.

excellent.  how does it go on other kernels?  (solaris? irix? win32?)

j.

-- 
R N G G   "Well, there it goes again... And we just sit 
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-14  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-14  8:58 Making diff(1) of linux kernels faster Paul Gortmaker
2001-10-14  9:51 ` john slee [this message]
2001-10-14 15:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-17 12:25   ` Paul Gortmaker
2001-10-17 16:59     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-17 16:44       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-17 18:21         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-17 20:21           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-17 19:06             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-17 21:23             ` chris
2001-10-17 21:30               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-17 21:45               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-17 17:12       ` John Levon
2001-10-17 19:19       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-10-17 18:50     ` Andreas Schwab
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-17 17:57 willy tarreau
2001-10-18  0:25 ` Horst von Brand
2001-10-18  8:02   ` Nick Craig-Wood
2001-10-18  9:55     ` Wojtek Pilorz
2001-10-18 11:18       ` vda
2001-10-18 12:39 Marco C. Mason
2001-10-18 14:48 Sean Neakums
2001-10-22 16:39 Andries.Brouwer

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