Re: [gentoo-dev] compile time statistics

[Werner Van Belle]

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Hmmm,

Altough it's a nice proposal that would be really usefull, I still think there 
are some serious problems involved. Compilation time is non lineair. 
Depending on how much cache, how much memory, how fast your hard-disk is, 
what your bus-speed is and above all, what the user is doing at the same time 
while upgrading his machine will seriously impact compilation time. All of 
these factors are very difficult to take into account. 

With kind regards, 

Werner,-

On Friday 25 July 2003 21:13, Svyatogor wrote:
> I was actually thinking of making this proposal :)
> Just a small comment. In LFS you can find estimate compile time in SBU
> (Standart Bash Units - time required to compile bash). It would be nice
> if we could include this kind of information into ebuild. Any ideas on
> whether that would be possible to do?
>
> ÷ ?? 25.07.2003, × 20:56, Rutger Lubbers ÐÉÛÅÔ:
> > People,
> >
> > This mail is about a question. The question is "how long does package
> > x.y.z take to compile on my machine?" Now my idea is, we have the
> > emerge.log file and can obtain some data from it, so we might "predict"
> > that compile time for that user.
> >
> > To get a fairly good prediction I need data. To get data I perhaps need a
> > prediction. Which needs data. So at the moment I don't know what to do.
> >
> > One part I have finished right now, I can get the compile times from the
> > emerge.log and submit it to a central database (see
> > http://ripat.xs4all.nl). Some "basic" querying I can do too.
> >
> > My questions to you is:
> > - would this be a nice feature to have?
> > - would you be willing to provide me with compile time statistics?
> > - do you have any hints / ideas what I can do to get this from a no
> > dataless project to a data having project?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Rutger Lubbers
> >
> >
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Werner,-
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