Hi

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Christopher Bergstr?m
<cbergstrom at netsyncro.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:42 AM, ?<David.Comay at sun.com> wrote:
>>> I did finally do a build with the new Mesa version switched back to gcc,
>>> and it does seem gcc builds noticably smaller binaries than Sun Studio,
>>> so we may have to revert to the GNU compilers for Mesa in order to fit
>>> on the LiveCD, if we can't find a better fix soon:
>>
>> We should see though how well these compress with LZMA given the
>> performance improvments we should be seeing with that.
>
> Just curious.. are you adding -xspace.. If you look at the elf
> binary.. where is the extra space coming from inside the binary?..
> Anywhere noticeable? If you can preprocess the source so that it's
> easily comparable/reproducible and send to the toolchain list.. I'll
> be converting your xorg packaging/patches over to my new system this
> week and can also test lzma and xz (basically lzma2) as well compare
> generated sizes.. Rumor is that SS 12.1 EA is coming soon so may be
> worth testing against that as well.. I see a lot of possibilities vs
> just reverting back to gcc..
>

+1


I'm not happy if Mesa will go back to gcc.

> Cheers,
>
> ./C
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