From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Feb 21 15:18:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-53.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7853A37B401 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:18:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A446666F32; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:18:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:18:27 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: Kris Kennaway , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk sys.mk Message-ID: <20010221151827.A61818@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <20010221123835.A59024@mollari.cthul.hu> <200102212306.f1LN6Ov33309@misha.privatelabs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102212306.f1LN6Ov33309@misha.privatelabs.com>; from mi@aldan.algebra.com on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:06:23PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:06:23PM -0500, mi@aldan.algebra.com wrote: > On 21 Feb, Kris Kennaway wrote: > =3D On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:27:54PM -0500, mi@aldan.algebra.com wrote: > =3D > BTW, may be -mcpu=3D${MACHINE_CPU} can be added to the default CFL= AGS > =3D > now? And a comment, that changing -mcpu to -march will, probably, be > =3D > even better, but will prevent the binaries from being usable on > =3D > earlier CPUs. > [...] > =3D The -march statement doesnt matter though, since some binaries built > =3D with MACHINE_CPU set will already be CPU-specific (e.g. if you specify > =3D i686 then openssl will use the i686 blowfish code) >=20 > This means, the released binaries will never be compiled with this > optimizations (since they are expected to run on all architectures). > And that means, people doing benchmarks of the "out of the box" > installations, will find FreeBSD slower for "secure web-hosting". That's right. Until we stop supporting the 386 we have to provide 386-compatible binaries. > Unless, of course, we provide different binaries on CDs. This is possible, but space is obviously a problem. Kris --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6lEzDWry0BWjoQKURAmKPAJ0buvowVs4qEfkwpBhslY4NRCaMggCg4TY2 CvArpPGkyofDj5HGQR4kAGA= =xqx7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message