From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 27 7:22:28 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com (mailout04.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC0F537B419; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:22:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd07.sul.t-online.de by mailout04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16qFFg-0006gL-01; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:22:16 +0100 Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (520065502893-0001@[217.83.30.226]) by fmrl07.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16qFFb-0vQCCeC; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:22:11 +0100 Received: from Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2RFM1h3017435; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:22:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from netchild@Leidinger.net) Message-Id: <200203271522.g2RFM1h3017435@Magelan.Leidinger.net> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:22:01 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang Makefile ports/lang/icc Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/lang/icc/files patch-include To: green@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sw@anthologeek.net, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200203271509.g2RF9Z096879@green.bikeshed.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Sender: 520065502893-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27 Mär, Brian F. Feldman wrote: >> >> > I got Ruby compiled with icc some weeks back and I seem to recall around a >> >> > 20% speed improvement, as well. An interpreter is a good benchmark for a >> >> > compiler's ability to generate both fast and correct code :) >> >> >> >> Awesome. Now... what about "cd .../ruby; make -DUSE_ICC"? ;-) >> > >> > I didn't test it with FreeBSD headers building FreeBSD executables, so I'll >> > have to try that and make sure binary compatibility exists, too :) >> >> It was a joke. Ruby uses autoconf, so it's a nightmare to do a port >> which builds it with icc. > > When I tried it, it really wasn't that hard. As a port? It's very ugly. Some ports may be not very hard to convert, but then the author of the source knows how to write good .in and .am files. Not everyone knows how to do this. Bye, Alexander. -- The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message