Re: [PATCH] Start of compat32.h (again)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

>    > How about some test where relocations come into play?
>    > spec2000 is a bad example, it's just crunch code.
>    
>    time ./configure might be a good test...
>    
> Agreed.
> 
>    > Most systems spend their time running quick small executables over and
>    > over, and in such cases relocation overhead shows up very strongly.
>    
>    Really? What workload besides configure does many small programs?
>    
> What do you do when you're developing code?  make, edit, ldd, ls,
> grep, etc.

Yes, but as developing code is human-bound (waits for my input most of
the time), it is not *that* important. [It is probably still nice to
have it fast.]

OTOH: gcc is faster 64-bit, and if you mix 32-bit and 64-bit, you
loose caches and have twice as many libraries. I guess 5% faster gcc
is more important than 30% slower ls...

								Pavel
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