request for timings - makedepend

[DJ Delorie]

> (a) the numbers reported by the "time" command,
> (b) what sort of machine this is and how old,

Thinkpad 600 (RHL 9 i386, PII 266MHz) 192Mb (7 yrs old)

real    0m46.115s
user    0m40.080s
sys     0m3.930s

Dual Opteron 246 (FC3 x86_64, 3GHz) 2Gb (new)

real    0m4.344s
user    0m3.875s
sys     0m0.453s

> and (c) whether or not you would be willing to trade that much
> additional delay in an edit-compile-debug cycle for not having to
> write dependencies manually anymore.

Are there any compromise solutions?