From fe65588a5c5de4dffffe62e51b05dc8531b93c3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulf Magnusson Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 18:51:47 +0200 Subject: Point out the Linux kernel Kconfigs being huge --- README.rst | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index f1b8c86..d7e0ee2 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -276,8 +276,10 @@ Other features The `allyesconfig.py `_ - script currently runs in about 1.3 seconds on a Core i7 2600K (with a warm - file cache), including the ``make`` overhead from ``make scriptconfig``. + script currently runs in about 1.3 seconds on the Linux kernel on a Core i7 + 2600K (with a warm file cache), including the ``make`` overhead from ``make + scriptconfig``. Note that the Linux kernel Kconfigs are absolutely massive + (over 14k symbols for x86) compared to most projects. Kconfiglib is especially speedy in cases where multiple ``.config`` files need to be processed, because the ``Kconfig`` files will only need to be parsed -- cgit v1.2.3