[bf1942] High performance build

[Paul Richards]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Killing" <killing at barrysworld.com>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] High performance build


> I think a few people on this list need to brush up on what the beta
> process is I agree 100% with Zachary please leave the performance
> requests till we get something that's remotely stable / fully functional.
> Removing some debug is hardly gonna make any difference.
>
>     Steve / K
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Wood" <wawoodtx at attbi.com>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: 10 January 2003 00:48
> Subject: RE: [bf1942] High performance build
>
>
> > Sorry, you don't speak for me. One needs to beta test the code as close
> > to production as possible.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Zachary Williams [mailto:admin at ztnet.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 6:42 PM
> > To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> > Subject: Re: [bf1942] High performance build
> >
> >
> > I think I speak for everyone on this list, that is is a waste of time
> > and resources whilst still in this public beta stage.  Once the
> > compatibility, and serious bugs/performance issues on a broad scale are
> > addresed, and actual release candidate time comes out, then, processor
> > optimization would be a more realistic possibility.  As of right now,
> > creating processor specific compiler options, will not assist in the
> > diagnostic process.
> >
> > Zach
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Udo Held" <udo at udoheld.de>
> > To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 6:05 PM
> > Subject: [bf1942] High performance build
> >
> >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Ryan would there be a chance that you do a extra build that leaves out
> >
> > > the for most users useless debug messages that is compiled for a 686
> > > and with some performance compiler switches?
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > >
> > > The only message from the server I could find that is usefull is the
> > > Ip-Port binding.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Udo
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

Making a different build for each proc type would indeed be a waste of time.
I was under the impression that a server running in debug mode would be
eating up more CPU cycles, and with BF every mhz counts ;)