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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
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* Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> [011214 02:46] wrote:
> 
> 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.

Wait, you go to each and every freebsd install and do a make world?

The point is we can do this dynamically, in fact we don't even need
to teach the linker how to do it, we can do it via the startup
scripts by checking a sysctl and providing the subdir to ldconfig.

:)

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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