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Re: autoconf-2.52 not a speed demon ?? --
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: autoconf-2.52 not a speed demon ?? -- |
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Wed, 31 Oct 2001 05:30:41 -0500 |
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:44:43PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > From: Paul Townsend <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 02:21:48 -0500 (EST)
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> > I just upgraded from autoconf-2.13 to autoconf-2.52 and either I
> > have done something incredibly stupid (an always present
> > possibility) or the 2.52 version does its thing extremely slowly.
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> It's the latter.
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> > FYI - the SS5 workstation has an 85 MHz cpu.
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> An 85 MHz MicroSPARC II? Wow. SPECint 92 is 65.3, which means it's
> about the same as a 60 MHz original Pentium for your application.
> That's -- what -- 20 times slower than the cheapest PC that I can now
> buy at my local computer shop?
there were claims on this mailing list that 2.50 was 3 times faster than
2.13 (so you're saying that 2.52x is ~60 times slower than 2.50)
> You need to run "autoconf" on a faster machine. Sorry. (At least
> "configure" hasn't slowed down much. :-)
can you quantify that?
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