I'm trying to add some info about SBU times in the Conventions page in
Chapter 1. This is what I've come up with:
"As in LFS, each package has a build time listed in Standard Build
Units (SBUs). These times are relative to the time it took to build
binutils in LFS. Most times listed are for a single processor or core
to build the package. In some cases, large, long running packages tested
on multi-core systems have SBU times listed with comments such as
'(parallelism=4)'. These values indicate testing was done using
multiple cores. Note that while this speeds up the build on systems
with the appropriate hardware, the speedup is not linear and to some
extent depends on the individual package."
I'm not entirely satisfied with this paragraph and would like some input
on how this should be worded.
-- Bruce
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