From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 27 20:43:43 2005 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 AD30A16A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:43:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from people.fsn.hu (people.fsn.hu [195.228.252.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0DAE43D5A for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:43:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bra@fsn.hu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by people.fsn.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC5A084408; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:43:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from people.fsn.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (people.fsn.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05567-04-2; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:43:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.101] (fw.axelero.hu [195.228.243.120]) by people.fsn.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6AB84425; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:43:31 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42471AEC.1030602@fsn.hu> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:43:24 +0200 From: Attila Nagy User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: c0ldbyte References: <420008450006DC4F@ims3a.cp.tin.it> <20050327142324.D15693@eleanor.us1.wmi.uvac.net> In-Reply-To: <20050327142324.D15693@eleanor.us1.wmi.uvac.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at fsn.hu cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: gerarra@tin.it Subject: Re: 5-STABLE kernel build with icc broken X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:43:43 -0000 c0ldbyte wrote: > If any, still produces not all that much of a difference of code between > the newer gcc34 and as much performance differance as your going to get > isnt going to even be noticeable in the long run. Your just setting your > self up for failure with something that isnt really going to give you > the desired effects. You don't have to use it, but it is good if you *can*. I guess besides that having a cleaner code base which compiles not only with exactly one compiler it is always good to have the ability to try something else out. BTW, on my humble Pentium II server I noticed significant speedups, compared to the system compiler. But that's purely empirical. -- Attila Nagy e-mail: Attila.Nagy@fsn.hu Free Software Network (FSN.HU) phone @work: +361 371 3536 ISOs: http://www.fsn.hu/?f=download cell.: +3630 306 6758