> On 22 Jun 2005, at 16:18, Vishal Vatsa wrote:
>>> Also most people don't want to spend like a couple of days of
>> setting up the system for 10-20% boost. Its just not worth the
>> compile time if don't have the latest and greatest CPU. And if you
>> do then do you really care about 10% boost?
>> 10-20% is *extremely* unlikely. It might be plausible if you were
> running i386 code on a P4, but not when using funroll-loops etc
> against stock -O2 on x86-64.
Colm is correct lads.
I used gentoo optimised to bits on a p120, and noticed a decent increase
compared to RH / Suse.
I moved to athlon-xp and was disappointed with the perf gains. There was a
very slight gain, but nothing significant.
And wasted CPU cycles recompiling every update that comes in, we all know
how often updates arrive.
Doing this for an already optimised arch is a waste of time.
Gentoo precompiled would be fine though.
regards
Conor.
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