On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 02:26:36PM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote: > Would anyone object to the following patch: > > --- a/src/setup.py > +++ b/src/setup.py > @@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ class dist_func(_bdist): > > > # These are set to real values based on the platform, down below > -compile_args = None > +compile_args = [ "-O3" ] > link_args = None > ext_modules = [ > Extension( > > It adds a "-O3" flag to the end of every compile. It will require that you > use SS12 or newer (or gcc) as your compiler, which is probably okay. But > it gives us a small speedup in action parsing, and a large speedup in > solver performance on Niagara. > > On x86 and sparc64, the solver speeds up by about 3x; on N2, the solver > speeds up by about 2.6x. (Average of three runs of run.py -o t_solver.) > > On x86, action parsing speeds up by about 7.6%; on sparc64, by 3.6%; on N2, > by 3.2%. (Average of the three runs of action creation in actionbench.)
No objection, but is there any way we can get this change into the pycc that's used to build SFW? I suspect that many of our binary modules would also benefit from the compiler's optimization. -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
