Re: Raspberry PI vs Raspberry PI 2: time to compile backend code

On 2/23/15 6:55 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is a purely informational email...
> I have put my hands on a Raspberry PI 2, and I have found that it takes
> 6 minutes to compile the backend code using the 4 cores of the ARMv7
> processor, and close to 20 minutes on a single core (without ccache).
> The test has been done using ArchLinux ARM with a micro SD card of class
> 10 (said to be able to manage 50MB/s in write, 60MB/s in read).
> In comparison, the buildfarm machine hamster, which is a Rasp PI 1,
> takes close to 2 hours to do the same operation, using the same OS and a
> similar class 10 card (30MB/s but the I/O is not the bottleneck).

Nice! Looks like Moore's Law works even on tight budgets.

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