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Hey Nicholas!

 NB> How long did it take to compile?

Too many factors to pin a number to, but if I use ftp://mirror.c
club.uwaterloo.ca/slackware/slackware64-current/source/k/kernel-
onfigs/config-6.11.5-generic.x64, a AMD Ryzen 7 5800U ( 8 cores, 2 threads per
core ), with make -j16 and cpu govenor set to performance, it takes 26
minutes, 6.672 seconds.

 NB> So it would be interesting to know if things got any faster.

It seems to me that when I was doing kv-4.x.x on this same machine it took
only around 5 minutes but that was using a leaner config.  Too much has
changed since then and to be honest I prefer the kv-6.x.x over any earlier
source especially considering newer glibc, gcc etc.  For me any additional
compile times is more than worth it given the final result.  If speed was the
only consideration then something like a threadripper would be the way to go. 
:-)

 NB> Have you heard any big and/or exciting things about kernel
 NB> version 7?

Not yet but I haven't gone looking.  I am getting too old for all this but I
don't seem to be abandoning all of the work I put in to get this far. 
Obviously I am too stubborn for my own good.  The neighbours have been happy
with my wireless work which I keep telling myself to give the old heave-ho. 
Too much crap in that department but as long as everyone is happy with it who
am I to argue.

Right now my favorite distraction is making 4K digital movies.  What a hog
that is but I must admit I am having fun with the idea especially given mpv
and libdrm.

Also I want to move Little Mikey's Brain over to a Epyc based server and
virtualize it.  It has a spare GHz network chip I should be able to farm out
to it.

Life is good,
Maurice

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