Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh | Date | Wed, 9 Dec 2009 19:50:58 -0600 |
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On Wednesday 09 December 2009 17:45:21 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 12/09/2009 03:40 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > > This is why reducing the perl version to just the precomputed constants > > wouldn't work either. (They're there so that you only need to install a > > random cpan library when surprised by a build break on non-x86 machines.) > > It's not "a random CPAN library" - it's a core module.
Then why cache large quantities of its output and test for its existence?
Rob -- Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds
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