amd processors seem slow at running configure?

[Dan Kegel]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> Good call!  After doing
>  for cpu in `seq 0 3` do; sudo cpufreq-set -g performance -c $cpu; done
> the a8-3850 runs configure in 37 seconds (instead of 67)!
>
>> It would be interesting to know how the i7 fares when using the
>> performance governor.
>
> On the i7, after doing "./configure" once to warm up,
> ondemand gives 31 seconds, performance gives 23 seconds.
> So it's not AMD-specific.
> 'conservative' gives 26 seconds, halfway between the two.

my q9300 isn't affected by this much; either way, it takes 32 to 37
seconds to run configure there.