Building The Linux Kernel In 60 Seconds

Re:Building The Linux Kernel In 60 Seconds by beagle3 on Sunday December 11, 2011 @12:16PM (#3340426)

I know this is not what the article talks about, but ... Bellard did this in 15 seconds, in 2004 with a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4. In the 7 years since, I except a 4-fold increase in speed, so on modern hardware it will probably be 4 seconds, maybe 1 or 2 on the beast described in this article.

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Re:Building The Linux Kernel In 60 Seconds by jronkone on Sunday December 11, 2011 @12:57PM (#3340530)

> Bellard did this in 15 seconds, in 2004 with a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4

But isn't Linux kernel a lot bigger nowadays?

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Re:Building The Linux Kernel In 60 Seconds by xyzzyz on Sunday December 11, 2011 @01:24PM (#3340606)

He did it with his own C compiler (tcc).

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Re:Building The Linux Kernel In 60 Seconds by ars on Sunday December 11, 2011 @07:26PM (#3341637)

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_C_Compiler#Compiled_progra...

There are tradeoffs for compiling very fast: Slower program execution.

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Re:Building The Linux Kernel In 60 Seconds by beagle3 on Sunday December 11, 2011 @02:47PM (#3340855)

The base kernel is not a lot bigger. There are about four times as many drivers. (But bellard's compilation only included the ones needed, IIRC. google tccboot for more info)

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