Well, I am thinking of more simple along the lines of for example, a) gd component delivers 2 packages - regular and optimized for modern architecture b) installer or IPS framework determines that this system is a modern architecture and hence installs the optimized version of that library component.
- Sriram C. Bergstr?m wrote: > Sriram Natarajan wrote: >> Hi >> Libraries like libgd, jpeg can be cpu intensive in web work loads and >> delivering a version of this library that can take advantage of newer >> cpu architectures can deliver better performance. I was wondering, if >> this is some thing we can target for OpenSolaris 2010.02 release ? > Are you referring to doing something similar to how moe is used to > test the maximum optimized version of libc and loopback mount over top > of it? For osunix I could think of how to work this, but not with > pkg5 + osol.. For us we could adjust use flags or add a more > optimized arch people could subscribe to pretty easily.. I'll give it > more thought..
