Bug 63882

Summary:	wrong optflags in textutils.spec?
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	kehcheng
Component:	textutils	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description kehcheng 2002-04-20 04:30:17 UTC

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Description of problem:
The line "%define optflags -g" in textutils.spec causes all programs in the 
package to be built without any optimization.  On a 1.7 GHz Xeon workstation 
with 2 GB of memory, checking the MD5 sum of a 600 MB iso image takes 29 
seconds using /usr/bin/md5sum.  The same operation takes less than 5 seconds 
using a private copy of md5sum recompiled with the optflags line removed.



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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.time /usr/bin/md5sum xxx.iso
2.recompile md5sum with some level of optimization
3.time ./md5sum xxx.iso
	

Actual Results:  Recompiled md5sum runs much faster than /usr/bin/md5sum.
The same is true with other programs in textutils.

Expected Results:  Programs in /usr/bin should have decent, if not optimal, 
performance.

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Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-06-27 12:33:32 UTC

This was necessary at some point because of compiler problems, but since they 
have been fixed since, I agree it should be removed. Done in 2.0.21-4.