Re: USE flags ??

[Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>]

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Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

> What the heck does an MTA do that would make P4-specific binaries
> run so much faster than the standard 386 binaries?
>
> All it does it move big chunks of bytes around from sockets to
> files and back again.

No kidding.  I tend to find that putting faster hard drives tends to
give the best speed improvements with MTAs.

>> Got (independently-sourced) numbers to back it up?
>
> On Sparc, When compiled for the target CPU, OpenSSL smokes the
> generic Sparc binaries.  Must have something to do with SIMD
> instructions in later CPUs.
>
> Does that count?

I was hoping for something a bit more clinical.
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