* Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011213 22:17] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:23:28PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > > > There are many effects that could cause this, for instance if FreeBSD > > > manages to align things differently in relation to the CPU cache you > > > could get some very interesting waste of time that way. > > > > > > Based on the data you show me, I can't really say that something is > > > wrong or right either way. > > > > One thing that Linux does that we do not do is that they have different > > versions of libc compiled specifically for different cpu types, and at > > boot time set the correct paths. eg: /lib/i386/libc.so.6.whatever > > > > This means that Linux's glibc is using an i686 optimized bzero(), but > > the FreeBSD one is using an i386 optimized bzero(). > > This could easily be hung off CPUTYPE like we do for the asm code in > OpenSSL, right?
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. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message