[yonatan8070]

I wonder, if you were to script all the commands you ran back in the day, and ran that same script on your old 386 and on a modern system with a top-of-the-line AMD Epyc or Intel Xeon, how much faster would it run?

[fourfour3]

Especially with the increase in storage performance - going from a hard disk that might have even still been using PIO modes to modern NVMe would be gigantic

[llm_trw]

The kernel is rather larger today: https://stopbyte.com/t/how-many-lines-of-code-linux-has/455/...

The same is true for all other pieces of software.

Build time will always increase until no one can be bothered to build it any more.

[fourfour3]

I think you've missed the point:

> I wonder, if you were to script all the commands you ran back in the day, and ran that same script on your old 386 and on a modern system with a top-of-the-line AMD Epyc or Intel Xeon, how much faster would it run?

Implies you're compiling the 386 era versions of Linux - so the fact modern Linux is larger is immaterial.

[llm_trw]

There is a unit of compilation as part of the LSF book which lets you estimate the who build process. You only need to compile libc or some such.