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Re: problems with ypbind



>>>>> "Brederlow" == Brederlow  <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
  Brederlow> X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.37/XEmacs 21.2(beta3) - "Aglaia"

  Brederlow> As to my knowledge -O6 is not a legal option for debian
  Brederlow> packages. Except for special files (like the innermost loop of
  Brederlow> xaos, which uses -O3) only -O2 might be used. A package like
  Brederlow> ypbind should not eat that much cpu time to make -O6 neccessary
  Brederlow> and the risk of breaking something is far to high (on any
  Brederlow> arch). I would consider -O6 a severe bug (i.e. a bug that make
  Brederlow> the package unusable) since its just to risky.

Indeed.  What justifies this anyway?  How much would one gain from such a
strong optimization (attempt).  This is anal ;o

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Nicolai P Guba
	BT Labs			GNU
	nicolai.guba@BT.com	nicolai@GNU.org


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