From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 14 0:46: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E360237B416; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:46:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fBE8jx586110; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:45:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:45:59 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Kris Kennaway , Peter Wemm , Poul-Henning Kamp , mitko@rila.bg, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Performance issue Message-ID: <20011214004559.B86064@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <72360.1007898170@critter.freebsd.dk> <20011209232328.31DC43810@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20011213201715.C84382@citusc17.usc.edu> <20011214022651.I79896@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011214022651.I79896@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 02:26:51AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 02:26:51AM -0600, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > This could easily be hung off CPUTYPE like we do for the asm code in > > OpenSSL, right? >=20 > That's not the point, you're proposing a static configuration > which i honestly don't like. What makes more sense is to > teach the dynamic linker to look for archetecture specific > subdirectories in order to dynamically link in a shared object > more suited to the running CPU, not the CPU it was compiled on. Yes, well, we already compile the *entire tree* with static (compile-time) optimizations when CPUTYPE is set, so one more (bzero) is no difference except that it gives an extra performance benefit. Kris --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8GbxGWry0BWjoQKURAijvAJ9uUPvSHVGF2gDHhW68piM/9M4ltACg4ViI ktY0M+KS/POZlsjKgKwJwwM= =08oY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message