Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:22:01 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: green@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sw@anthologeek.net, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang Makefile ports/lang/icc Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/lang/icc/files patch-include Message-ID: <200203271522.g2RFM1h3017435@Magelan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <200203271509.g2RF9Z096879@green.bikeshed.org>
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On 27 Mär, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
>> >> > I got Ruby compiled with icc some weeks back and I seem to recall around a
>> >> > 20% speed improvement, as well. An interpreter is a good benchmark for a
>> >> > compiler's ability to generate both fast and correct code :)
>> >>
>> >> Awesome. Now... what about "cd .../ruby; make -DUSE_ICC"? ;-)
>> >
>> > I didn't test it with FreeBSD headers building FreeBSD executables, so I'll
>> > have to try that and make sure binary compatibility exists, too :)
>>
>> It was a joke. Ruby uses autoconf, so it's a nightmare to do a port
>> which builds it with icc.
>
> When I tried it, it really wasn't that hard.
As a port? It's very ugly. Some ports may be not very hard to convert,
but then the author of the source knows how to write good .in and .am
files. Not everyone knows how to do this.
Bye,
Alexander.
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