[bf1942] High performance build

[Zachary Williams]

2 hours?!  Heh, another excellent reason to keep with a single build.

BTW, where do I send the caffinated candy, drinks, and foods to for
increasing the viable work day of a BF1942 linux version coder?  *wink*

Zach

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus at clutteredmind.org>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] High performance build


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> > 686 binarys should run on PII and upwards and AMD TB and up which is
> > reasonable for most, because one cannot run a server on slower machines?
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> I am absolutely not going to do this, because as soon as I do a CPUx
> build, someone on CPUy will want a specific build, and CPUz which should
> be compatible with CPUx won't work for some reason.
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> The thing takes 2+ hours to compile, more with optimizations. I'm not
> spending half a day building various versions for each release.
>
> And, most importantly, CPU-specific builds do not give the performance
> increase you'd expect. Writing smarter code is always a better solution.
>
> --ryan.
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