FYI (fun)

[Julian Elischer]

in a freebsd 1.0 chroot on a freebsd 8.0 system on a 3 year old 
(i.e not the fastest) system.


cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf; config GENERICAH; cd ../../compile/GENERICAH; make depend all

[...]

loading 386bsd
rearranging symbols
text    data    bss     dec     hex
458752  16384   139504  614640  960f0
5.8u 3.9s 0:09.71 101.1% 617+625k 0+23io 0pf+0w

yep folks.. that's 9.7 seconds from go to whoa.
and of course that was only using 1 cpu..
hmm did make have -j in those days? 
(tries it and sees no change so apparently not).