On Wed, 21 May 2008 17:58:16 +1000, Mark Goodwin wrote:
markgw> Nathan Scott wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I came across an oddity in pmnscomp.c (the binary PMNS
>> compiler) - the -v option contains conditional code on
>> the BUILDTOOL macro, which conditional makes version 2
>> available. This is not enabled anywhere, probably was
>> on IRIX. Version 2 looks to be similar to version 1,
>> except has added a checksum.
>>
>> Anyone know what the history is here? Why aren't we
>> enabling version 2 everywhere?
Wasn't it something Mr. X Moore did as his first project?
markgw> don't know.
markgw> Irrespective, we should nuke compiling the pmns and just
markgw> deal with ascii. The binary format was introduced eons ago
markgw> for performance reasons that are no longer relevant on
markgw> modern h/w.
Brave assertion. Did anyone ever tried to measure how long pmcd takes
to load pmns? I didn't.
Plus, compiling is used as validation step to make sure pmns we've got
makes any sense at all. If anything, this needs to be preserved.
max
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