On Fri, 21 May 2004 11:17:33 +0100 (IST)
Paul Jakma <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2004, kevin lyda wrote:
>> > wouldn't a rebuild of a single source tarball with no dependancies
> > be a better judge?
>> No no.. you want to able to verify any claims, see below.
>> > what would that prove?
>> Well, that they built it. And glibc-2.3.3-27*.i486.rpm arent commonly
> available so the person would have had to built them themselves, and
> you can verify they built it by installing it.
Here is the file..
>> So, it's a perfect compile speed test.
0.000000001u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
It took 0.0000001 seconds on my 286 ( with my own hardware
extensions on the box and 14GB of RAM )
Now prove otherwise.. :-)
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