Optimized kernel builds: the straight dope

[Jamie Jones]

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 17:33 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> Having read over it, I think the numbers are fairly compelling.  The
> difference in performance between -386 and -686 is insigificant; the
> measurements are all within a reasonable error range, and within that range,
> -686 was slower as often as it was faster.
> 
> My recommendation is that we phase out these additional kernel builds, which
> I expect will save us a great deal of developer time, buildd time, archive
> storage and bandwidth.
> 
> I'm interested to hear (objective, reasoned) feedback on this data and my
> conclusions from the members of this list.

Do we have a monkeys guide to reproducing this benchmark. I'd like to
see the effects it has on Amd boxes, and other Intel boxes. If you have
a monkeys guild (rather step by step and ideally with the exact same
config used by Ben), I can add some K7, and K8 datapoints (dapper boxes
though)

Regards,
Yagisan
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