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

Scott Harrison lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:42:40 -0500


Just my two $.

There are times when I wonder about just having
a completely separate, differently bundled perl,
mysql, and apache....

We need to continue to make LON-CAPA maneuverable
between different versions and OS's...
but streamlined vertical performance would be nice.

> 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
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