Re: [gentoo-dev] compile time statistics

[Rutger Lubbers <ripat@xs4all.nl>]

> > 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 solution for capturing accurate stats on machines that use Portage's
> distcc support.  Because otherwise, your stats will not be as accurate as
> you'd like.

Yeah, this crossed my mind also. I believe that using distcc would "void" 
those stats, perhaps we can store it and maybe possible analyze if we can use 
any of it.

Rutger


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