[H-GEN] Sorcery

Jason Henry Parker jasonp at uq.net.au
Mon Mar 4 06:29:56 EST 2002


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Paul Gearon <pag at PISoftware.com> writes:

> For many apps which have no specific bottlenecks (whether they be programs
> in /bin or your own code) then the more streamlined you can make each
> component of the overall system, the better your performance.  Obviously
> this doesn't count if your program is only spending 2% of it's time in
> glibc, with 90% of that in the kernel, but that doesn't apply to *every*
> process in the system.  (does it?  :-)

Every now and again some wacko comes along and demands that Debian
recompile binaries so they're optimised for P3s or something.
Whenever anyone bothers to actually run the numbers, the performance
increase is pretty dismal.

Most applications just *don't use* algorithms that are suited to
taking advantage of such advanced features.

It's a waste of time.
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