Bodo Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:27:33AM -0500, William M. Perry wrote:
>
> >>> Note in particular this line:
> >>> checking which DES optimizations to use... -DDES_RISC2 -DDES_PTR
>
> >> Nice, but in some cases it is better to actually know what you are doing
> >> than just pick some flags and try if it appears to work.
>
> > Why not actually run the tests and choose the one that is actually faster?
>
> This would lead to non-deterministic results, except on single-tasking
> systems. Even if there's a portable and exact way to measure processor
> time instead of real time, other processes's influence on the processor
> cache can influence the measurements.
good point. We can just make autoconf throw the machine into single user
mode while configuring and then back to normal init level when it
finishes. :)
-bp
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