Re: Hi, packaging mldonkey, rpath + other questions

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 06:45:37PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > Great. I will build a bytecode binary-all and a optimised with
> > > arch=i386,alpha,...<archs that have ocamlopt>.
> > 
> > Yes, you could also split the package in two binaries, the first one
> > being a bytecode package, and arch: all, the other being a native code
> > package and arch: <list of supported arches>.
> 
> Please consider if there is a real need to have both version of the
> package? Is mldonkey a cpubound software? If this is not the case and if
> the user can have no advantages in using a nativecode version then go
> for a bytecode-only arch:all version.

On older systems it can eat up quite some cpu time. Even on my
PIII-666 its noticeable:

mrvn     15225 21.9 34.9 277816 269468 pts/7 S    Sep07 658:35 /usr/lib/mldonkey/mldonkey

Thats 4-6 hours cpu time a day with the ocamlopt version.

MfG
        Goswin