And on older hardware Performance is king. Sam. Ken Fuchs wrote: >Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > > > >>Do you really think there's something magical about compiling your own >>applications that makes them run faster? The same binaries compiled on >>another system then rolled into a .deb or .rpm will perform exactly the same, >>barring memory/cpu size/speed differences. gcc does not take into account your >>specific hardware configuration, nor should it. >> >> > >Most DEB and RPM files are compiled for the oldest, usually slowest, >architecture of an architecture family. For the x86 family, the code in >DEB and RPM files may be 386 code which is optimal only for a 80386 >CPU. Gentoo compiles code that is optimal for the CPU it is being >installed on. Thus compiling all code during an install as Gentoo does >can result in a huge performance advantage. > >Sincerely, > >Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list