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Posted by gizo at January 17th 2006 07:29 PM

Thats what I want to hear. Quicker compile times as on the dual G5. Let's press our thumbs that the MacBook Pro gets equal performance. I hope somebody compares the compile times of the 2gh iMac Duo with the quad G5. That's real world benchmarkingg, better than the photoshop shootouts some years ago ;-)

Posted by Dominik Wagner at January 18th 2006 01:43 AM

Glad to read this.

Thanks,

Posted by José Alejandro Betancur at January 18th 2006 06:09 AM

Testing my quad g5 right now...

5m59.261s - but that was with darwinports extracting, patching, configuring, building and installing.

I'll try just a raw make later.

Posted by Jonathan Wight at January 19th 2006 01:04 PM

Just testing a virgin build of subversion. Pre-configured using make:

5m13

Which makes sense because darwinports is doing a lot of extra work.

But doing this before hand: "export MAKEFLAGS='-j8'" tells make to run 8 jobs at the same time.

The numbers speak for themselves:

real 1m39.326s
user 2m46.088s
sys 2m20.560s

Posted by Jonathan Wight at January 19th 2006 01:24 PM

Gus, did you try -j8 as Jonathan wrote in his post on your G5 and Intel-iMac?

Posted by Michael Nordmeyer at January 20th 2006 06:49 AM

MAKEFLAGS are very important when making compilation scream on a multi-processor (or -core) machine. -j8 is probably near the optimum on a four core machine. On a two core machine -j4 could be near optimum.

In any case the speed of the latest consumer mac with a mobile processor looks very good. I can hardly wait for Intel's Yonah related pro desktop offerings later this year, which will probably find their way to Macs too.

Posted by Jussi at January 20th 2006 11:02 PM