[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7495) valgrind

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7495 >

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:38:47AM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
> I've said that execution speed isn't a factor for server or client, 
> since most of the time is spent waiting (because of delays in animation).
> 
> But when running under valgrind this is certainly not true.  If we could 
> speed up the program 10x then maybe I'd play it under valgrind all the time.

My informal measure is that valgrind make the program slower by a
factor of 60.

If I would be you I would rather wait till the hardware gain the
factor of 10 instead of hoping to make freeciv faster by this amount.

        Raimar

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