From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759434AbZLJBu7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:50:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759387AbZLJBuz (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:50:55 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:38005 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759380AbZLJBuz (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:50:55 -0500 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 19:50:58 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-16-generic; KDE/4.2.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Michal Marek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org References: <200912080317.08254.rob@landley.net> <200912091740.43147.rob@landley.net> <4B203691.7020203@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <4B203691.7020203@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200912091950.58950.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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