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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc with graphite flag?
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 19:10:44
Message-Id: 32bbf7c1-40f2-1b57-aea3-6f0f06165343@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc with graphite flag? by "J. Roeleveld"
1 On 04/30/2017 05:04 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
2 > On Sunday, April 30, 2017 2:18:42 PM CEST Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> On 04/30/2017 05:25 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
4 >>> So much for that wiki entry. BTW, I ended up putting...
5 >>>
6 >>> sys-devel/gcc graphite
7 >>>
8 >>> ...in package.use. The "graphite" USE flag means something entirely
9 >>> different for harfbuzz, i.e. build against media-libs/harfbuzz against
10 >>> media-gfx/graphite2
11 >>
12 >> Btw, I don't think that USE flag is useful for anything, unless you put
13 >> the graphite optimization flags in your CFLAGS (-floop-interchange
14 >> -floop-strip-mine -floop-block). If you don't use those, there shouldn't
15 >> be a reason to enable the graphite flag.
16 >
17 >
18 > Is there any benefit from using graphite and these CFLAGS on a current Gentoo
19 > system?
20 >
21 > Using a simple google-search, I can't find anything recent.
22
23 What Rasmus said, but the differences aren't going to be noticeable in
24 general use. For heavy number crunching (like video encoding) or huge
25 batch jobs or high-traffic servers maybe, but for normal desktop PC use
26 there's not going to be a difference.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc with graphite flag? Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>