Re: [Lse-tech] 7.52 second kernel compile

[Martin J. Bligh]

> Yes.  Last time I tested, -pipe was _always_ a loser, and writing to
> swap was measurably faster than writing to fs.

Yup, was a looser for me too. I have a vague random theory that
things get blocked on pipe writes, thus causing more context switches.
I have plans at some point to try the improved pipe stuff that 
Hubertus and others were working on, and see if that helps.

M.