From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0@n0.is Subject: Re: Cuirass Ghzminutes enhancement idea Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 17:46:55 +0000 Message-ID: <20190621174655.onxphnozytcmy7c7@uptimegirl> References: <20190621160114.GA25473@jurong> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33107) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1heNdI-0000me-NV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2019 13:47:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1heNdH-0001lG-NP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2019 13:47:28 -0400 Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([91.220.196.211]:59590) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1heNdH-0001ZY-GP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2019 13:47:27 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: swedebugia Cc: guix-devel swedebugia transcribed 385 bytes: > Hi > > On 2019-06-21 18:01, Andreas Enge wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 05:43:54PM +0200, swedebugia wrote: > > > Maybe we could have an additional time measurement: Ghzminutes. > > > E.g. if the build took 60 minutes on a 3 Ghz machine it took 20 Ghzminutes. > > > > 180 GHzmin? > > Yes, thanks for correcting me! > > At 1 Ghz it would have taken 180 minutes. :) Seems to me as if going with the established units would make it easier to calculate, ie maybe using decahertz (10^1 Hz) as a base unit makes it more convenient to scale up or down in calculation estimations? > -- > Cheers Swedebugia >