OT: Why planet gnome doesn't tell all the truth?

[Andrew Conkling]

On 2/20/06, Qiangning Hong <hongqn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Michal Kapalka wrote:
> > 1. (as already pointed by someone else) Who runs "cat /a/large/file" so
> > often that the difference between 1 sec and 4 sec is of any
> > significance? (and who will be reading so much text from any terminal
> > anyway? ;) IMHO, benchmarks should correspond to the user actions that
> > are the most common.
>
> For us gentoo users, a simply command such as "emerge firefox" will
> produce *tens of thousands of lines* of output to the terminal.
> Actually, from the log files, I know that the last execution of "emerge
> xorg-x11" gave me 120785 lines of output!

Yes, that's true.  To avoid overhead, I tried to run my portage
sessions on a vt so that this wouldn't be as much of an issue.

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