Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 21:51:11 +0600 From: Max Khon <fjoe@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r228196 - in head: share/mk tools/build/options Message-ID: <CADe0-4=qzSkNyukubFfWe27d-P__9xdTH4NMUhqw70GiOiF7jw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111203012843.S2543@besplex.bde.org> References: <201112020909.pB299sFk084589@svn.freebsd.org> <20111203012843.S2543@besplex.bde.org>
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Bruce, On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> wrote: >> Log: >> Revert to conservative defaults. WITH_PROFILE is a default now. >> >> NO_PROFILE overrides in Makefile.inc1 and bsd.own.m are left intact >> so that the reversal to the WITHOUT_PROFILE will be easier in future. > > > Thanks. Not building profiled libraries might have been best in 1993 > when makeworld took hours (4-10?). When I optimized makeworld in 1998, > it still took more than 1 hour but I removing profiling from it was > intentionally left out (except for bootstrapping). It would have saved > only a few minutes. Now, a whole makeworld should take a few minutes > and the few extra seconds for profiling libraries doesn't matter. The real goal was to have reasonable defaults. The definition of reasonable differs. The definition for some of us is: if I use it it should be the default. My definition is: the system needs minimum tweaks for the majority of users. Maxhome | help
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