On 06/29/2010 07:23 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:
I have: CFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3
Hm. I've never seen that flag before. My k8 supports only sse2.
AFAIK -fomit-frame-pointer should be perfectly safe, at the only cost of making debugging harder. I already thought about removing it anyway, so my bug reports will make more sense. BTW, does anyone know _how_ _much_ this flag is suposed to seed things up, is it even noticeable?
I've never been able to see any difference, so I don't use omit-fp. But, the main cpu-intensive app I use is gcc, and I admit I've never actually measured the difference.
Uh, I just hate web clients. That's what I have a desktop environment for,
I agree completely, but the Software-As-A-Service paradigm is getting a lot of attention from M$ *and* google as a more profitable alternative to selling shrink-wrapped software like M$-Office. (M$ ran out of good ideas to persuade people to buy new versions of Office many years ago, IMHO.) When companies that rich and powerful push web-only services as the answer to their revenue prayers, I suspect they may be able to win. I hate web-mail, and I always use pop3 or imap when I can, but I can't force my employer to offer those services if they've decided that running a web- mail server is cheaper. I've tried many times, but I'm losing the battle. If the trend continues, only port 80 will be in use in a few years. Will the black hat hackers be unhappy about that? Dunno, but I'd guess not.
