Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-10-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 at 17:11:21 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Not necessarily.  -fPIC and -fPIE force calls to global functions > > defined in the same translation unit to go through the PLT.  They > > aren't translated to direct IP-rel

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-10-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Alastair McKinstry [111003 12:48]: > I would defend static libs for scientific apps. Static libs show a > significant performance > benefit (2-40%, median around 5-10% but sometimes far more with C++ > apps) Are those numbers only the position independent code (I guess mostly the register avail

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-10-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Bastien ROUCARIES [111003 17:27]: > > Not necessarily.  -fPIC and -fPIE force calls to global functions > > defined in the same translation unit to go through the PLT.  They > > aren't translated to direct IP-relative calls.  For -fPIC, this is > > required by the ELF specification (no kidding,

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-10-03 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Adam Borowski: > >>> I would defend static libs for scientific apps. Static libs show a >>> significant performance benefit (2-40%, median around 5-10% but sometimes >>> far more with C++ apps) and so are standard in HPC still; >> >> If you

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-10-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bastien ROUCARIES: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Adam Borowski: >> I would defend static libs for scientific apps. Static libs show a significant performance benefit (2-40%, median around 5-10% but sometimes far more with C++ apps) and so are standa

Re: debian on nokia N93i

2011-10-03 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 05:13, ..Blue...Genea.. wrote: > Good day, > Please if you have information provided can be installed on Nokia N93 > with Symbian OS 9.1, S60 3rd edition, a version of Linux. > > thank you for the advice! I am not a Debian Developer, but I have never heard of Linux being in

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-10-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adam Borowski: >> I would defend static libs for scientific apps. Static libs show a >> significant performance benefit (2-40%, median around 5-10% but sometimes >> far more with C++ apps) and so are standard in HPC still; > > If you see that big a difference, you do a lot of cross-file calls in

debian on nokia N93i

2011-10-03 Thread ..Blue...Genea..
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Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-10-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011, Florian Weimer wrote: >> Couldn't we get rid of static libraries altogether, replacing static >> linking with ahead-of-time dynamic linking? > > Well, the normal usecase for static libraries and static linking is to > produce self-contained obj

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-10-03 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 11:20:11AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > On 2011-10-02 23:08, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >On Sun, 02 Oct 2011, Florian Weimer wrote: > >>Couldn't we get rid of static libraries altogether, replacing static > >>linking with ahead-of-time dynamic linking? > > >

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-10-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On 2011-10-02 23:08, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011, Florian Weimer wrote: Couldn't we get rid of static libraries altogether, replacing static linking with ahead-of-time dynamic linking? [1] but I don't feel strong enough about it to get in the way if we do decide to d

[RFC] License text parser and converter

2011-10-03 Thread Luca Falavigna
DEP-5 is a good step forward to standardize copyright information. While it's indeed useful to determine a license type, there's no guarantee stand-alone license paragraphs or license headers are accurate (i.e. typos, GPL-2 license header while declaring GPL-2+), or canonically formatted (i.e. 72-

Bug#644137: ITP: ruby-cassiopee -- provide methods to search exact match or approximate matches with Hamming or edit distance

2011-10-03 Thread Olivier Sallou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Sallou * Package name: ruby-cassiopee Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : Olivier Sallou * URL : https://rubygems.org/gems/cassiopee * License : GPL Programming Lang: Ruby Description : provide methods to

Bug#644136: ITP: ruby-text -- collection of text match and analysis algorithms

2011-10-03 Thread Olivier Sallou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Sallou * Package name: ruby-text Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Author : Paul Battley, Michael Neumann, Tim Fletcher * URL : https://rubygems.org/gems/Text * License : GPL Programming Lang: Ruby Description : c