Do anyone here have the experience with 64bits compiled Samba on SPARC?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Nov 30 17:00:08 UTC 2015


On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 04:52:03PM +0100, Jiri Sasek - Solaris Prague wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/30/15 16:08, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 03:40:10PM +0100, Jiri Sasek - Solaris Prague wrote:
> >>Could it be possible to commit your patch but slightly modified to
> >>do not chase memcpy() on platforms which do not throw SIGBUS on
> >>unaligned pointer into Samba upstream?
> >Why is that so bad?
> 
> ...maybe I have a dinosaur-thinking yet  ...but it seems to me a bit
> costly to chase memcpy() on it  ...but I will leave it on Ralph's
> opinion.
> Many thanks to both of you,

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worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times;
premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of
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