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1?RCS: $Id: d_speedopt.U 1 2006-08-24 12:32:52Z rmanfredi $
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11?RCS: $Log: d_speedopt.U,v $
12?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1 1994/10/29 16:15:51 ram
13?RCS: patch36: call ./Cppsym explicitly instead of relying on PATH
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15?RCS: Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:07:27 ram
16?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release.
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18?MAKE:d_speedopt: Myread Cppsym Oldconfig cat models Setvar
19?MAKE: -pick add $@ %<
20?S:d_speedopt:
21?S: This variable conditionally defines the SPEED_OVER_MEM symbol, which
22?S: indicates to the C program that it can burn memory in order to save
23?S: CPU time.
24?S:.
25?C:SPEED_OVER_MEM (SPEEDOVERMEM):
26?C: This symbol, if defined, indicates that the program can use more
27?C: memory in order to reduce CPU time. The symbol doesn't say whether
28?C: we are more interested in saving text space or data space.
29?C:.
30?H:#$d_speedopt SPEED_OVER_MEM /**/
31?H:.
32?LINT:set d_speedopt
33: do we want speed at the expense of memory
34$cat <<'EOM'
35
36I can try to optimize this package for either speed or memory. If you have
37limited address space you may wish to optimize for memory. Otherwise you
38should probably optimize for speed.
39
40EOM
41case "$d_speedopt" in
42'') if ./Cppsym $smallmach; then
43 case "$models" in
44 *large*|*huge*) dflt=speed;;
45 *) dflt=memory;;
46 esac
47 else
48 dflt=speed
49 fi
50 ;;
51*define*) dflt=speed;;
52*) dflt=memory;;
53esac
54rp="What to optimize for?"
55. ./myread
56case "$ans" in
57mem*) val="$undef";;
58*) val="$define";;
59esac
60set d_speedopt
61eval $setvar
62