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? > > 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
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