20 Jun
2006
20 Jun
'06
3:18 p.m.
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Jules Richardson wrote:
I believe the R4600 came with 16KB of L2 cache. Or perhaps it was 32KB?
Either way it was abysmally small for the processor. I later swapped the
processor out for an R4400 with 1024KB of cache, and the difference was
astounding.
JP
That's
about how long it took my first 2.0 kernel compile on a
386SX-16 with 4MB of RAM (an old Packard Hell desktop toy). I quickly
switched to my 5x86 after that. ;-)
Interesting - circa 1993 it used to take me about 2 hours I think with the
486/33 that I had then. Kernel was 0.99 I believe, and the machine had 8MB of
memory which I suspect made a huge difference.
I'm quite surprised that the R4600/133 Indy was so slow - I'd be tempted to
point my finger at the compiler rather than the hardware there.