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Date:      Sun, 9 Dec 2007 16:19:50 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@web.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br>
Subject:   Re: Problems Building 7.0-Beta3 with -Os
Message-ID:  <20071209161853.J71725@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <d763ac660712081903m43eb9782n27d001ecfa5aee34@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4756BAD3.4060905@web.de> <95938867@bb.ipt.ru> <200712060051.26294.joao@matik.com.br> <20071207101817.xcvz0wdi68cscwkg@neslonek.homeunix.org> <d763ac660712081903m43eb9782n27d001ecfa5aee34@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On 07/12/2007, Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@web.de> wrote:
>
>> On the other hand, why you want to optimzie the hell out of a 4-way 8-Gig 
>> Operton server or the like, for normal services you want feel too much 
>> difference here, because it is fast as hell anyway.
>
> Because sometimes "optimising the hell out of a large server" is the 
> difference between needing to buy 1 or 1.5 of said server.

And this becomes even more of an argument when you're talking about 1000 or 
1500 servers vs 2000 servers. :-)

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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