Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up early, amused to read Don Parris's comment on the superiority of OpenDocument; and I quote:
Never mind that any half-breed monkey with the brain of a flea that has ever programmed an office suite since Microsoft captured the marketplace has bent over backwards to ensure the highest level of compatibility with MS Office they could offer.
He should clearly be more careful whom he offends.
Mental note - someone needs to write an accurate document on the whole 'which format is better' debate instead of all this tedious, unrelastic hype (from both sides). That document should focus specifically on Excel / Calc.
Added Kohei Yoshida - intrepid Calc hacker to the OO.o planet. Poked at mail, ORBit2 build issue, collated holiday time. Watched Veggi-Tales with Jason, Daniel & Rachel - around while Mum is in hospital.

Hacked at binutils a whole lot - turns out it's quite easy to re-order the dynsym table; also easy to re-order the dynstr table to be in elf_hash % bucket_count order instead of order of appearance; for those that like numbers:

Before:
==27907== D   refs:       98,069,403  (73,455,788 rd + 24,613,615 wr)
==27907== D1  misses:      3,963,722  ( 3,943,112 rd +     20,610 wr)
==27907== L2d misses:        179,710  (   178,441 rd +      1,269 wr)
==27907== D1  miss rate:         4.0% (       5.3%   +        0.0%  )
==27907== L2d miss rate:         0.1% (       0.2%   +        0.0%  )
After:
==27871== D   refs:       98,067,932  (73,454,588 rd + 24,613,344 wr)
==27871== D1  misses:      1,916,141  ( 1,911,775 rd +      4,366 wr)
==27871== L2d misses:        175,893  (   174,620 rd +      1,273 wr)
==27871== D1  miss rate:         1.9% (       2.6%   +        0.0%  )
==27871== L2d miss rate:         0.1% (       0.2%   +        0.0%  )

And of course - that doesn't require any glibc changes, which is nice. Some patch cleanup needed. Conf call with the Intel lads.

Cell group meal in the evening - 11 for a Mexican Christmas meal, lots of fun, bed late feeling over-full.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2005-12-21: Wednesday