On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 21:41 +0000, Richard Melville wrote: > The atom has come a long way since its inauguration; the latest > Silverton range featuring the Avoton processors boast up to an eight > core model with a 2.6 GHz clock speed per core and a 64 bit > instruction set. The L3 cache is up to 4 MB. My own humble N2800 > atom is 64bit dual core with a 1.86 GHz clock speed and a 1 MB cache. > It completes a build of a fairly large static kernel image in ~ 45 > mins. Not fast, I'm sure, compared with a powerful processor but > acceptable nonetheless.
Certainly quick compared to my old netbook, which runs a first generation Atom chip. It works adequately, even runs Gnome Shell with reasonable responsiveness... but I'd never even consider doing an LFS build on it. Simon. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
