faster bzip2

Hi.

This patch builds bzip2 with profile guided optimization, the --combine 
option, and -fomit-frame-pointer:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~robert/new/patches/bzip2-1.0.5-faster.diff

The non-shared bzip2 program decompresses 7% faster for me, without accounting 
for -fomit-frame-pointer. The libbz2.so library runs 4.5% faster for me. The 
profiling optimization works a lot better when the all the code is built 
together, so the non-shared bzip2 program is suggested. So:
cp -v bzip2 /bin/bzip2 # Not bzip2-shared

I also tried other options like -fwhole-program, -O3, and -finline-functions, 
and they made bzip2 and the library slower. My tests were only with 
decompression, of a gcc tarball, but compression should also be faster.

There are also other bzip2 packages that do parallel/multithread compression, 
but not parallel decompression.

robert

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Betr: faster bzip2

>-- Oorspronkelijk bericht --
>From: Robert Connolly <robert <at> linuxfromscratch.org>
>To: General chatter list <lfs-chat <at> linuxfromscratch.org>
>Subject: faster bzip2
>Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:32:06 -0500
>Reply-To: General chatter list <lfs-chat <at> linuxfromscratch.org>
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>
>Hi.
>
>This patch builds bzip2 with profile guided optimization, the --combine

>option, and -fomit-frame-pointer:
>http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~robert/new/patches/bzip2-1.0.5-faster.diff
>
>The non-shared bzip2 program decompresses 7% faster for me, without accounting
>
>for -fomit-frame-pointer. The libbz2.so library runs 4.5% faster for me.
>The 
>profiling optimization works a lot better when the all the code is built
>
>together, so the non-shared bzip2 program is suggested. So:
>cp -v bzip2 /bin/bzip2 # Not bzip2-shared
>
>I also tried other options like -fwhole-program, -O3, and -finline-functions,
>
>and they made bzip2 and the library slower. My tests were only with 
>decompression, of a gcc tarball, but compression should also be faster.
>
>There are also other bzip2 packages that do parallel/multithread compression,

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