24 points | by ingve 20 hours ago
8 comments
Excuse me, it took the auther 30-40 seconds (0m33.260s) to build the Linux kernel on an M2 with 32GB RAM? Surely that's a typo?
Looks like they're doing allnoconfig so there's not much to build.
With make allnoconfig it also takes <30s on a recent-ish Intel CPU (12th gen; i7 12700). As low as 20s if it's cached and with make -j20.
1. modern computers are insanely fast
2. they compiled a version of the kernel with as many configurable options disabled as possible
3. modern computers are insanely fast
This kind of work reminds me of early WSL1-era hacks
The related Starina OS project looks pretty cool
https://docs.starina.dev/comparison-with-others
Excuse me, it took the auther 30-40 seconds (0m33.260s) to build the Linux kernel on an M2 with 32GB RAM? Surely that's a typo?
Looks like they're doing allnoconfig so there's not much to build.
With make allnoconfig it also takes <30s on a recent-ish Intel CPU (12th gen; i7 12700). As low as 20s if it's cached and with make -j20.
1. modern computers are insanely fast
2. they compiled a version of the kernel with as many configurable options disabled as possible
3. modern computers are insanely fast
This kind of work reminds me of early WSL1-era hacks
The related Starina OS project looks pretty cool
https://docs.starina.dev/comparison-with-others