Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 14 Oct 2001 19:51:55 +1000 | From | john slee <> | Subject | Re: Making diff(1) of linux kernels faster |
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 04:58:29AM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > So, with the cold cache, my patch cut the time by a factor of 5(!!) > and the amount of audible death growls from the disk is also reduced. > In the warm case, you pay a slight penalty since the simple hack > doesn't try to keep the file data around while priming the cache.
excellent. how does it go on other kernels? (solaris? irix? win32?)
j.
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