[bf1942] High performance build

[Udo Held]

Hi!

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:58:42AM -0500, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> 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.

Personally I use a AMD TB and the server I'm would be using online would
be a P III. The wormshl-server I compiled had serverall optimized
builds.

> The thing takes 2+ hours to compile, more with optimizations. I'm not
> spending half a day building various versions for each release.

Is the server still so buggy that you have to watch the build process?
When the server is compiling on it's own one could automatize it, start
the process and go to bed or go home. Next morning there would be a cool
new release. Many open source projects release a nightly build(which I
guess isn't compiled by hand)


> And, most importantly, CPU-specific builds do not give the performance
> increase you'd expect. Writing smarter code is always a better solution.

Hmm. I quess you won't accept any setiathome testing results(i386
compared to i686). Can you image a software that I can compile and where
I can run some automized tests e.g. some video/audio
processing/converting or some 3D rendering?

Regards
Udo