On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 04:24:53PM -0600, Ken Fuchs wrote: > 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. It's not a huge performance advantage, and if you're really that conerned about it, apt-get source foo; rpmbuild --rebuild --target i686 foo.src.rpm -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ 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