[clue-tech] localyesconfig

[June Tate-Gans]

On 2/5/10, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
>
> Let's gain a little perspective... if you can't easily see the
> difference on a stopwatch, even a badly run one, all that extra
> re-compiling isn't doing you as much good as you think it is!  :-)
>
> Should be in the order of many seconds difference in time to make the
> lost time/productivity of re-compiling worth it.

I respectfully disagree; if the time is about a half second's
difference and you're constantly shutting down the machine (say, for a
laptop), then you're actually saving time that does matter for the
lifetime of the compile. Remember: even restoring from a hibernate
session requires re-loading the modules from the ramdisk.

Overall, though, loading modules will take at least a second if not
more during the boot process. As I said in an earlier post, loading
modules just from a /ramdisk/ is slow due to the crazy number of
reference calls that modprobe has to make -- and this example is on a
Core2 Duo @ 2.26GHz.

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