On Wed, 18 May 2005 21:02:57 -0500 "Gabriel M. Beddingfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I like the website because some of the criticisms are quite valid. | (Some are just caricatures.) Like the optimizing thing: Their | (valid) point is that spending hours of tweaking to get 1% extra | efficiency is actually less efficient. It's a diminishing return.
Equally, they completely miss that the correct CFLAGS can, in some situations, give a 500% speed improvement. It's one of the reasons Gentoo used to utterly thrash Debian and Aurora in SSL benchmarks on SPARC -- we allowed v9 code, whereas everyone else was shipping v7 binaries, which lead to emulated integer division. They've since seen the error of their ways, so Debian ship a v9 openssl as a separate package now. Which means we only utterly thrash them at every other crypto benchmark :) -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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