From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 05:26:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D7437B404; Thu, 15 May 2003 05:26:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from milla.ask33.net (milla.ask33.net [217.197.166.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8765243FA3; Thu, 15 May 2003 05:26:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@milla.ask33.net) Received: by milla.ask33.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A6B323ABB4D; Thu, 15 May 2003 14:30:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 14:30:33 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030515123033.GP45118@garage.freebsd.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6+tq7hoORRLxZXV8" Content-Disposition: inline X-PGP-Key-URL: http://garage.freebsd.pl/jules.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://garage.freebsd.pl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Optimizations. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:26:55 -0000 --6+tq7hoORRLxZXV8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello hackers... IMHO optimization in FreeBSD's code has too low priority. Maybe is time to think about some 'optimiztion team' creation? It will be a group of hackers that are skilled in using gcc(1) optimiztion flags, when those flags can cause problems and how to slove them (we got -O for years) - optimization flags should be increased just like WARNS value is. They should have experience in old-school optimization (there are many places where '* (2^n)' could be changed to '<< n' and many places where compilator don't know how to or is just unable to optimize, etc.). They could made regular code profiling and present results somewhere (and of course help authors to get better performance in critical places). Bla, bla, bla... Just let's speed-up FreeBSD!. Any opinions/ideas? --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek pawel@dawidek.net UNIX Systems Programmer/Administrator http://garage.freebsd.pl Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://cerber.sourceforge.net --6+tq7hoORRLxZXV8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBPsOIaT/PhmMH/Mf1AQHFNwP/bMDIZZf0lFJ2DPf/HMxsB4vDXn1nt03k m/cBZs+dydLdpKwaFz0N0Zua9fmiERQADyBcmiATwm5Ewzoi3kX2M5guZ6K4JFd/ bzquAhQO/6TYunfoqXp8IE5WM4SEpMr6mv3ZSfQW2dy/bmXzueDniobjBFAieGPv d1tPinXYYMc= =6u+G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6+tq7hoORRLxZXV8--