LFS LiveCD x86_64-6.3-min-pre1 Available

[Jeremy Huntwork]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:25:31AM -0400, kas wrote:
> that the book changed that much.  64 bit was run from the CD whereas the 32 
> bit build was run from the CD installed on a hard drive. 

This would kind of skew the accurateness of your test. Reads performed
on a CD filesystem are noticeably slower than those from a hard disk. As
you build /tools you are continuously reading and making use of items on
the host system, in other words, the LiveCD. Since your SBU is measured
by the first program you build, binutils, you would end up having a
higher SBU for a system built from the CD than one from an internal
disk.

Of course, as the build progresses and you begin using more and more
items on the hard-disk only, (first in /tools and then in chroot), the
read time would increase.

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JH