On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, David Golden wrote: >> >> I think I'm with Reini on this one. I'd rather keep it Windows-only until a >> performance problem is documented elsewhere. > > It's been documented that the patch improves performance on FreeBSD by a > *factor* of 160 for one particular test case, as well as a factor of 4 > on Linux. In the meantime Wolfram has constructed another testcase where > the patch improves performance on Linux by a factor of 45 (my system) to > 230 (Wolfram's system). +1 -- DavidThread Previous | Thread Next