Re: 7.52 second kernel compile

Linus Torvalds
2002-03-18T22:48:40Z

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Dieter [iso-8859-15] Nützel wrote:
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> it seems to be that it depends on gcc and flags.

That instability doesn't seem to show up on a PII. Interesting. Looks like
the athlon may be reordering TLB accesses, while the PII apparently
doesn't.

Or maybe the program is just flawed, and the interesting 1/8 pattern comes
from something else altogether.

Linus