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by llm_trw 624 days ago
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.

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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.