Re: kbuild 2.5 is ready for inclusion in the 2.5 kernel - take 3

Diego Calleja (DiegoCG@teleline.es)
Fri, 17 May 2002 22:25:02 +0200


On Fri, 17 May 2002 22:09:22 +0200
Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> escribió:

> Spot the pattern? Exponential growth. not only that, but for the most
> part, the build system is the same across all of these. If we continue
> growing at the current rate without doing something about the build
> process, we're all going to be needing 8-way Opterons with several
> GB of memory to get any work done.

Well. If a miracle doesn't happen, i'll have to start thinking how to buy a 8-way Opteron....
>
> If kbuild2.5 is faster, and produces the same end result (or better
> still, more accurate builds), there's no valid reason to ignore it
> that I can see.
>
> Dave.
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