Compiling on the Cobalt RaQ2 isn't fast. It's actually rather sluggish when you come right down to it. Now whether that is a function of the MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) chip, a slow bus speed, or a slow IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) drive, I can't say, although I suspect it may be a slow bus speed (the MIPS based SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc.) [1] system I used at FAU (Florida Atlantic University) [2], while only 33 MHz (MegaHertz), was fast—the only things faster were the newer MIPS based SGIs).
Table: Time it took to compile various packages on a 250MHz MIPS based Cobalt RaQ2 Package Real time User time System time ------------------------------ MySQL 4.1.11 312m, 31.074s 288m, 52.820s 20m, 32.900s Bind 9.3.1 51m, 0.245s 47m, 2.640s 3m, 20.260s Apache 2.0.54 84m, 26.658s 66m, 6.710s 16m, 45.680s PHP 4.3.11 56m, 17.193s 45m, 44.070s 9m, 52.470s
These were just the packages I kept the compile times for—the rest (like OpenSSL [3] or NTP (Network Time Protocol) [4] were just as slow to compile.
I wonder though … if there is a way to tune the IDE drivers to get some better throughput …