No. With 20Meg of ram, disk is almost never accessed when compiling
kernel. Kernel compilations get some 95% of cpu... Well, question is
if you want CPU performance, or CPU & memory performance. make of
kernel tests the second one.
> I'm using the byte bench 2.0 benchmarks with default options, I don't
> touch anything. It was compiled exactly the same on both the ppro/200 and
> the K6.
>
> People might claim dhrystones are "useless", but unfortunately it does
> seem to be a good indicator of speed, despite what people claim.
>
> E.g. we compared a pentium and a powerpc with dhrystones. People claimed
> powerpc should be faster, but no matter what application we ran, it
> wasn't. In fact, each application showed exactly the same speed as
> dhrystone predicted.
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