[SLOF] [PATCH] Do not include the FCode evaluator by default anymore

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Sep 2 02:06:45 AEST 2016


On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 05:53:21PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > One way to speed this up is to put the init in a word (so use ['] instead),
> > it probably is quite noticably faster.  Fast enough, I do not know.
> 
> I tried that already, but it's also not fast enough - it still slows
> down the boot process by more than a second.

Hrm pity, I wonder what is going on then.

> Since we're currently not using the FCODE evaluator at all, I think it
> is not worth the effort to spend a lot of time with optimizations here
> ... let's simply disable it by default 'till we really need it again.

Sure, that is a good stopgap.  My point here is that this points at an
inefficiency in the engine somewhere, and everything will benefit from
fixing that.


Segher


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