A simple test this evening between two FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE machines. OpenVPN 2.1.1 compile from ports (source).
gen2 i386, Pentium 4 2.0GHz 2.0GB circa 2003
[root@gen2 /usr/ports/security/openvpn]# make install real 4m11.491s user 1m46.402s sys 0m26.863s
blackbox i386, Athlon Thunderbird 1.0GHz 512MB circa 2001
[root@blackbox /usr/ports/security/openvpn]# make install real 6m9.970s user 3m15.515s sys 0m43.739s
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