Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:03:56 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, Marius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r228857 - in head/usr.bin: . csup Message-ID: <20111224230356.GA69395@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <4EF645D2.8080407@FreeBSD.org> References: <201112241216.pBOCGd1H012696@svn.freebsd.org> <4EF645D2.8080407@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 01:36:18PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On 12/24/2011 04:16, Marius Strobl wrote: > > On FreeBSD just use the MD5 implementation of libmd rather than that of > > libcrypto so we don't need to relinquish csup when world is built without > > OpenSSL. > > Did you benchmark this at all? I agree that keeping csup available > absent openssl is a good goal, but csup is a prototypical "tool that > does the same thing many thousands of times" so even tiny regressions > could add up to a large cost in wall clock time. > > If the openssl version is faster, then conditionalizing where to get md5 > is probably the right answer. If libmd is faster, then it's a net win. :) > Imagine that! A request from someone, who is a staunch anti-profiled lib supporter, to (I don't know) profile a change to the system. -- Steve
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