2010/7/10 drago01 <drago01(a)gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Roberto Ragusa <mail(a)robertoragusa.it>
wrote:
>> Al Dunsmuir wrote:
>>
>>> I would suggest doing PGO for the following:
>>>
>>> - Compression-type utilities (gz, zip, unzip, 7zip, etc),
>>> especially those libraries used by RPM to generate/process deltas.
>>
>> and encryption stuff: openssl, openssh, md5sum, sha1sum, ...
>>
>> and data intensive stuff: rsync, gcc, grep, ...
>>
>>> - Helper routines used by yum to extract dependencies
>>>
>>> - X-Windows server and libraries used for 2D and 3D display such as
>>> opengl, compiz, etc.
>>
>> and ghostscript, poppler, ...
>>
>>
>> Everyone will easily suggest Firefox and
OpenOffice.org.
>
> Not sure about firefox but atleast xulrunner and thus spidermonkey
> should help any app that uses them.
what about games like openarena tremulous etc? ;)
Not easy to do in an automated build; besides I doubt it will gain
much as the performance largely depends on the graphics driver and
performance critical parts use hand optimized assembler anyway.