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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@misha.privatelabs.com>
Subject: Re: port policies
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On  8 May, Eric Melville wrote:
>> All/most optimizations are done to work better in the _average_ case,
>> while  still working  acceptably in  the worst  cases. It  remains my
>> believe, that  -j2 on  a single-CPU machine  will _always_  work, and
>> on  _average_  will work  better.  I'll  be  interested in  seeing  a
>> counter-example, but  I must  ask for NOT  mentioning Redmond  in any
>> rebbutals.  Note,  that  simply  working slower  with  -j2  does  not
>> qualify.
>
> Don't do things that the user didn't ask to be done.
>
> If the user  wants more excitment, we provide facilities  that make it
> easy to do so.

The  user did  not ask  for ``-O  -pipe'' in  the CFLAGS  either. -pipe,
consumes  more  memory, while  -O  makes  compiling longer.  Should  the
default CFLAGS be empty too? By your logic, they should...

	-mi


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