Warren Block wrote:
Two machines freshly cvsupped with 5-Stable to the same level.

Generic Computer
Athlon XP Barton 3000, 512M, 80G 7200 RPM drive

make buildworld        1928 seconds  32.13 minutes
make buildkernel        449 seconds   7.48 minutes
make installworld        16 seconds


Thinkpad T42 Pentium M 1.7GHz, 512M, 40G 7200 RPM drive, AC power

make buildworld        1838 seconds  30.63 minutes
make buildkernel        421 seconds   7.02 minutes
make installworld        17 seconds


So the little notebook is noticeably faster than the power tower. But to make up for the difference, the tower has a serial port! And four--FOUR!--loud fans!

The 2mb L2 cache on the Pentium M makes a big difference in compliation. In other cases, it doesn't matter much.


The T42 also runs FreeBSD very well. All of the hardware on mine is supported, except, I think, the modem. I've never had reason to want to use it, so it's not a problem for me.
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