From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13335 invoked from network); 8 Sep 2004 17:16:59 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 8 Sep 2004 17:16:59 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C5643-0003na-9G for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 17:16:59 +0000 Received: (qmail 7094 invoked by uid 89); 8 Sep 2004 17:16:58 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 9843 invoked from network); 8 Sep 2004 17:16:58 +0000 Message-ID: <413F3E89.7030907@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:16:57 +0100 From: Robert Moss User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040817) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <33333.10.0.0.51.1094638559.squirrel@10.0.0.51> <20040908144944.6db89303.spider@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20040908144944.6db89303.spider@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Do we want optimal performance? X-Archives-Salt: b83bb3e9-d723-4957-a94d-7d953a3a9563 X-Archives-Hash: ed0f77e60eac71786f443c4c8dc027bd > Rather make an effort to add into portage a generalized way of useing > gcc's automatic profiling support, Allowing the people who care so > deeply to do this on the workload that just they use, and leaving the > rest of us without need to care for it. Exactly... I imagine that, with the new GIMPLE stuff in gcc-3.5, it's highly likely that this stuff would be totally pointless inside a couple of years anyway. Theoretically at least, you can implement this at function level and even below, so don't get too hung up on this - this is a brute force "solution," and a neat solution exists. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list