On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM, David Taveras <[email protected]> wrote: > Ive recently began using a Intel Atom 330 @ 2 x 1.60GHz (Silverthorne > 45nm) with 2GB of RAM. However Ive noticed that compilation of > userland takes 130minutes to complete, versus 45min on a standard > machine (Dual Core, Core2Duo, i7) and a Kernel recompile takes 15 min > vrs 5 min before. > > Has anybody else experienced these same performance slowdowns or is it just me?
I have not experienced it, because I don't own an Atom, but I would not be surprised that a CPU with fewer ALUs, no register renaming, no reordering, and a small cache that runs at a low clock speed is slower than CPUs that have all of the above. Your Atom uses like 10% of the power of your Core 2. Did you really expect it to be as fast?
