Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2014-04-27 23h59 UTC

2014-04-27 Thread hasufell
Robin H. Johnson: > Removals: [...] > dev-qt/linguist-tools 2014-04-23 10:48:16 zlogene > dev-qt/qttranslations 2014-04-23 10:49:23 zlogene > dev-qt/qtquick1 2014-04-23 11:10:31 zlogene > dev-qt/qtnetwork 2014-04

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LTO use in the tree

2014-04-27 Thread Richard Yao
On Sun 27 Apr 2014 08:40:08 PM EDT, "C. Bergström" wrote: > In terms of general performance gains using LTO - The #1 candidate > would be the linux kernel actually. See if anyone can get that to work ;) Intel's Andi Kleen is working on it: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.0/03450.ht

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LTO use in the tree

2014-04-27 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 04/27/2014 20:40, "C. Bergström" wrote: > On those old SGI MIPS machines use MIPSPro. It had better (LTO/whole > program) optimizations than GCC more than 10 years ago (imho and gcc may > have caught up now in 4.9). Just add the -ipa flag and test. In fairness > there is primarily 3 limitations

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LTO use in the tree

2014-04-27 Thread C. Bergström
On 04/28/14 06:14 AM, Joshua Kinard wrote: On 04/27/2014 19:08, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote: My curiosity, as I have not attempted LTO yet on any machine, is what are the RAM requirements? Is it a hard limit, wherein the compiler simply fails if th

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2014-04-27 23h59 UTC

2014-04-27 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2014-04-27 23h59 UTC. Removals: x11-themes/faenza-xfce-icon-theme 2014-04-23 08:26:52 ssuominen dev-qt/linguist-tools 2014-04-23 10:48:16 zlogene dev-qt/qttrans

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LTO use in the tree

2014-04-27 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 04/27/2014 19:08, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote: >> >> My curiosity, as I have not attempted LTO yet on any machine, is what are >> the RAM requirements? Is it a hard limit, wherein the compiler simply fails >> if there isn't enough RAM, or does it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LTO use in the tree

2014-04-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote: > > My curiosity, as I have not attempted LTO yet on any machine, is what are > the RAM requirements? Is it a hard limit, wherein the compiler simply fails > if there isn't enough RAM, or does it just start hitting swap real hard? It just all

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LTO use in the tree

2014-04-27 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 04/26/2014 20:34, "C. Bergström" wrote: > On 04/27/14 02:58 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: >> Rich Freeman wrote: >>> FWIW the list of packages I have issues with include: >> Not sure whether this is the right place to post it. > It's interesting to see that rather lengthy list. From a compiler engine

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/python-gnutls

2014-04-27 Thread Manuel Rüger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 # Manuel Rüger (28 Apr 2014) # Fails to build with gnutls-3, on behalf of python herd # See bug #446016 dev-python/python-gnutls -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enig

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LTO use in the tree

2014-04-27 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 04/27/2014 07:23, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:37 PM, "C. Bergström" > wrote: >> #2 The only reference to anything which the compiler could impact is >> "Use Boyer-Moore (and unroll its inner loop a few times)." Finding out which >> flag controls that for ${CC} would have so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LTO use in the tree

2014-04-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:41 AM, "C. Bergström" wrote: > On 04/27/14 06:23 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> And yet, in the same paragraph you mention -O3, which is tantamount to >> just setting a flag and walking away. That turns on 14 things you >> probably don't really need. > > I was trying to give

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LTO use in the tree

2014-04-27 Thread C. Bergström
On 04/27/14 06:23 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:37 PM, "C. Bergström" wrote: #2 The only reference to anything which the compiler could impact is "Use Boyer-Moore (and unroll its inner loop a few times)." Finding out which flag controls that for ${CC} would have some import

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LTO use in the tree

2014-04-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:37 PM, "C. Bergström" wrote: > #2 The only reference to anything which the compiler could impact is > "Use Boyer-Moore (and unroll its inner loop a few times)." Finding out which > flag controls that for ${CC} would have some importance. It's almost > certainly combined