<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Robby Workman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rworkman@slackbuilds.org">rworkman@slackbuilds.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:52:58 -0600<br>
Vincent Batts <<a href="mailto:vbatts@hashbangbash.com">vbatts@hashbangbash.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> In the same fashion of the Linux-From-Scratch guide, what are<br>
> everyone's idea on having a baseline package build time marked as the<br>
> Single Build Unit (SBU). some package of consensus, and included in<br>
> the README's could have in SBU's the relative build time of their<br>
> SlackBuild. for example if libsndfile takes 4 minutes to build on<br>
> your machine, that would be 1 SBU for you. therefore qt4 would be 45<br>
> SBU's and ipcalc would be < 1 SBU<br>
><br>
> this is an idea that would provide more foresight to the prospective<br>
> builders of any given SBo.<br>
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<br>
</div></div>Hrm, I don't know.<br>
<br>
On one hand, it would certainly be useful information to have, but at<br>
the same time, it's error prone -- either the data is very subjective<br>
(i.e. "that took forever") or it requires the submitter to time every<br>
build they run and compare it against some "standard" build.<br>
<br>
Besides, something like this would take all the fun out of comparing<br>
build times -- there would be this boring "<1SBU" or "10SBU" or<br>
"400SBU" instead of "faster than a fifteen year old boy's first time<br>
with Eliza Dushku" or "this thing takes a metric assload of time to<br>
build"<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>I think that the metric buttload is a very useful unit of time when expressing things like these.<br><br>--JK<br>