On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 06:28:11PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 23:42, Gregor Best wrote: > > > As before, I'm looking forward to anything you have to comment, especially > > cool > > benchmark ideas or the like. > > A short one is building a kernel. Try before and after with make, > make -j 2, and make -j 4. (or ncpu and ncpu * 2).
A more realistic and useful one is rebuilding the full package tree with dpb, which is rather simple to try these days (just requires about 30GB of disk space) kernel will take a few minutes, dpb some hours to a few days...