On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 04:06 +0200, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > According the Redhat Mailing List the current snapshot is fully GCC > 4.0 > compatible. So why don't we upgrade? Some people talked about 5% - > 10% > more speed. > > Matthias-Christian Ott >
I think we could get more speed out of it... The snapshot used by Fedora is for the 2.4 glibc branch, and they patched it with a glibc-fedora.patch file. This patchfile makes the snapshot backwards compatible with glibc 2.3.x, but also adds a forced "AS_NEEDED" thing to everything that wants to link with libc.so Since our binutils doesn't support AS_NEEDED scripting, I'm also compiling a different binutils. So we will have a glibc snapshot compiled with gcc 4.0, which forces us to use a feature in binutils that speeds up linking a lot. I will provide some PKGBUILDs, patches and packages later, so Judd can import them into testing if he wants to. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
