From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2005-11-29T02:03:14+09:00
Subject: Re: building ruby for speed: wise or otherwise?

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, ts wrote:

> >>>>> "H" == Hugh Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> H> thanks for that.  Still curious about dropping -g and bumping up to
> H> -03 though... :-)
> 
>  You can try it, but don't forget this
> 
> moulon% CC="gcc -fomit-frame-pointer" ./configure  > /dev/null 2>&1
> moulon% make > /dev/null
> re.c: In function 'rb_memsearch':
> re.c:121: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'rb_memcicmp' differ in signedness
        [ half a kilo of warnings :-) ]
> string.c:1256: warning: pointer targets in initialization differ in signedness
> ./lib/fileutils.rb:1257: [BUG] Segmentation fault
> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-10-29) [i686-linux]
> 
> make: *** [.rbconfig.time] Aborted
> moulon% 
> 

Ah, not a good idea.  But dropping -g ought to speed things up a
little, I'd hope.
> 
> Guy Decoux
> 
> 
        Thank you,
        Hugh
> 
> 
>