[LON-CAPA-dev] RedHat's perl compiled inefficiently?

[Martin Siegert]

Hi,

I got this information from the unisog mailing list.
The short story is that RedHat's perl is optimized for i386 and when
you recompile it for i686 you can expect a performance boost of 10-15%.
Is that of interest to lon-capa although it is in general not a good
idea to switch to non-standard rpms?

Cheers,
Martin

Forwarded message:
> To: Greg Francis <francis@gonzaga.edu>
> Cc: unisog@sans.org
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 09:57:46 -0500
> Subject: Re: [unisog] Email filtering....
> 
> Today's helpful hint for SpamAssassin:  On RedHat systems, the Perl shipped
> is compiled for i386 - getting the .src.rpm and rebuilding it for an i686
> yourself will get you 10-15% speed increase.
> -- 
> 				Valdis Kletnieks
> 				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
> 				Virginia Tech