Re: Why does gettext depend on libgomp1?

[Eric Blake]

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According to Santiago Vila on 2/5/2008 5:04 AM:
| The gettext package, when built on a Debian system using recent tools
| (i.e. Debian unstable), seems to be linked against libgomp1.
|
| This is a very small library, but since I have already been asked
| about this twice, I wonder about the reason for this dependency.

My understanding is that this is intentional - Bruno added a dependency on
the OMP extensions, when available, in order to speed up operations that
can take advantage of parallel processing.  These days, more and more
machines have multiple cores, and some of the gettext algorithms perform
in less wall time when done in parallel across the cores.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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