gentoo question

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Collins wrote:
> I'm not sure how fast sparc machines are.  On my P4 2.4Mz 196K system,
> Stage1 and Stage2 run about 2 hours each, and the configuration
> (including kernel) can be completed in less than an hour.

Slow.  Painfully slow.  Sun hardware is notoriously slow, because the
SPARC CPUs are slow as all hell.  They do well at disk IO, but that isn't
getting you anywhere when much of what you're doing is CPU bound.

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