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

Ralph Boehme rb at sernet.de
Mon Nov 30 17:12:07 UTC 2015


On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 09:00:08AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 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,
> 
> From the maestro himself (Donald Knuth).
> 
> "The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time
> 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
> it) in programming."

so I can push with a reviewed-by Donald? ;)

Thanks!
-Ralph

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