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On Monday 05 February 2007, Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: |
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> I am usually very hesitant to add new use flags to the tree (unless they |
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> are *really* necessary or imply a great advantage.) ; though i am not |
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> sure here if anybody else would consider this a good recommendation for |
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> handling textrels. |
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why not just build pic for everyone on x86 ? define "it'll hurt |
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performance" ... of course you take a small penalty for code being PIC, but i |
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dont exactly see smalltalk being such a performance hardcore language to |
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justify making it special |
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> I was thinking more of a simple 'use hardened && myconf=" .. "' specific |
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> line for this ebuild; but it's probably a good idea offering to more |
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> developers the easy choice of this feature through a USE flag? |
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you would utilize the "pic" USE flag ... php does this because it, unlike |
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smalltalk, is very performance critical, and so by default it builds as |
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non-pic on x86 |
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-mike |
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