Re: [gentoo-dev] compile time statistics

[Stuart Herbert]

On Saturday 26 July 2003 10:56 am, Håvard Wall wrote:
> I believe gentoo-stats is already sampling a lot of the needed
> information. An estimate could primarly be based on some "major"
> factors; perhaps cpu-type and clock frequency. Then, if enough
> statistics is available for the current architecture, on other settings
> as well, sucb as -O flags and size of main memory (MAKEOPTS?). A kind of
> hierarchical estimate... Could perhaps be hard to implement in practice
> though (?).
>
> But I believe there probably is some limited set of factors that could
> provide a reasonably good estimate.

Whoever actually implements these ideas, please don't forget that you need a 
solution for capturing accurate stats on machines that use Portage's distcc 
support.  Because otherwise, your stats will not be as accurate as you'd 
like.

Best regards,
Stu
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