From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 578 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Jul 2003 10:07:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 6321 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2003 10:07:35 -0000 From: Stuart Herbert Reply-To: stuart@gentoo.org To: =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E5vard=20Wall?= , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 11:05:39 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: werner.van.belle@vub.ac.be References: <200307251956.27193.ripat@xs4all.nl> <200307252052.09728.werner.van.belle@vub.ac.be> <3F22506A.8050902@ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <3F22506A.8050902@ifi.uio.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_3JlI/oQrAeshX15"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200307261105.43699.stuart@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] compile time statistics X-Archives-Salt: 25a9d318-6283-4171-9044-35f35694057c X-Archives-Hash: 31ec96514b460374091743fe6ac2ff1c --Boundary-02=_3JlI/oQrAeshX15 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 26 July 2003 10:56 am, H=E5vard Wall wrote: > I believe gentoo-stats is already sampling a lot of the needed > information. An estimate could primarly be based on some "major" > factors; perhaps cpu-type and clock frequency. Then, if enough > statistics is available for the current architecture, on other settings > as well, sucb as -O flags and size of main memory (MAKEOPTS?). A kind of > hierarchical estimate... Could perhaps be hard to implement in practice > though (?). > > But I believe there probably is some limited set of factors that could > provide a reasonably good estimate. Whoever actually implements these ideas, please don't forget that you need = a=20 solution for capturing accurate stats on machines that use Portage's distcc= =20 support. Because otherwise, your stats will not be as accurate as you'd=20 like. Best regards, Stu =2D-=20 Stuart Herbert stuart@gentoo.o= rg Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.or= g/ Upcoming packages list http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/package= s/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint =3D 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C =2D- --Boundary-02=_3JlI/oQrAeshX15 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/IlJ3DC+AuvmvxXwRAsFcAJ4hFdgLGtMBkp/Pv+FVqcqIeqhKSQCeM/2r 2IElAl1hbe09lfwQfF8fEgs= =1mVu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_3JlI/oQrAeshX15--