Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 04/14/05 17:24 CST: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/14/05 17:08 CST: > >> Estimated build time: < 0.1 SBU > > To me, the *lack* of precision in this example is much more misleading > that what we have now. > > Let's say for the sake of roundness, binutils takes 2.5 minutes (two > and one-half). Now 0.1 SBU would be 15 seconds. > > This would be way wrong for a package that compiles and installs > in one, or two seconds. To the point it would look like we didn't > know how to do elementary calculations.
I initially overlooked the less than sign in your example. With the less than sign, it now makes sense to me. It would work, for example, a machine that takes 10 minutes to do binutils, we are saying that a < 0.1 SBU package would take under a minute. That would probably work, as SBU's are bit of a stretch to pinpoint accurately. Too many unknowns. It's not just CPU speed, but the speed of the disk, amount of RAM and other variables we can't account for. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 17:29:00 up 12 days, 17:02, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.18, 0.09 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
