On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, 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 to 20% boost? Wow!
That *would* be worth switching to Gentoo for. Can you show me the
graphs proving this?
What I can't figure out is how RedHat and Debian don't know about
these magic compiler options.. (I mean, RedHat *employ* some of those
GCC and libc hackers, I'm sure others are Debian users.. strange
/they/ wouldn't know, isn't it?)
regards,
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