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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:
>> =C2=A0Revert to conservative defaults. WITH_PROFILE is a default now.
>>
>> =C2=A0NO_PROFILE overrides in Makefile.inc1 and bsd.own.m are left intac=
t
>> =C2=A0so that the reversal to the WITHOUT_PROFILE will be easier in futu=
re.
>
>
> Thanks. =C2=A0Not building profiled libraries might have been best in 199=
3
> when makeworld took hours (4-10?). =C2=A0When I optimized makeworld in 19=
98,
> it still took more than 1 hour but I removing profiling from it was
> intentionally left out (except for bootstrapping). =C2=A0It would have sa=
ved
> only a few minutes. =C2=A0Now, a whole makeworld should take a few minute=
s
> 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.

Max



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