[csw-pkgsubmissions] nss

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Am 26.02.2010 um 20:23 schrieb Philip Brown:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
>> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 1. why are we using libexec, for certificate utilities? Is there a
>>>> significant performance gain, and why do we CARE about performance,
>>>> for certificate utilities? surely it wont matter unless you are
>>>> processing thousands a minute, or something? what does that??
>>>
>>> This comes in GAR for free, by default, when you build 64-bit
>>> applications.  Is there a reason to disable it?
>>
>> well, that was not my question. My question was really, "why are you
>> building 64bit applications"? :)
>>
>> Extrapolating a bit, I guess what is going on, is that
>>
>> 1. You decided to build 64-bit libraries as well as 32bit libraries.
>> very nice, I certainly approve of that ;-)
>> However, this had a side effect of
>>
>> 2. gar "decided", since you want 64bit libraries, you also want 64bit
>> executables to go along with them.
>>
>> But is that an actual benefit in this case?
>>
>> I'm thinking not.
>
> Probably yes (means: I also think not).

What level of resource consumption difference are we talking about
here?  Do you have any figures, like bytes or running time
miliseconds?  Is it worth using time (=money) pushing back on this
package as it is right now?