On 16-10-2014 16:02, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> 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:

This is very welcome!

> "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

perhaps the word "build" is better, connected with "long"?

> 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."

Also depends on hardware: amount of RAM, swap, etc.

> 
> I'm not entirely satisfied with this paragraph and would like some input
> on how this should be worded.

It can be improved, but is already in very good shape to enter the book.

As this is a major modifications, I think it deserves mentioning in the
ChangeLog and in the Tickets System.


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