Bug#1104506: librsb: tunes runtime for build machine

Michele Martone michelemartone at users.sourceforge.net
Thu May 1 12:07:01 BST 2025


Hi Chris,

both is true -- the runtime detection shall prevail.

The tuning that you see is probably part of the test suite.

Ciao,
Michele

On 20250501 at 12:57, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> Package: librsb0t64
> Version: 1.3.0.2+dfsg-7
> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertag: cpu
> 
> Hi,
> 
> librsb records the size of the CPU caches at build time, and embeds that
> into the resulting binary. This info is apparently used by
> rsb__do_init_inner to tune the library. Obviously the CPU caches can be
> different on a users machine than what they were on the build machines.
> 
> It would seem good to detect the CPU caches at runtime, and stop embedding
> this info in the binaries.
> 
> Best,
> Chris
> 



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