on Fri, Mar 29, 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry (shalehperry@attbi.com) wrote:
>
> On 29-Mar-2002 Paul F. Pearson wrote:
> > Not that Woody is slow on my new 900MHz Celeron, 512MB PC, but I was
> > wondering to what CPU target the precompiled distro was configured?
> > Would I see a significant difference if I tried to recompile the
> > whole thing optimized for the Celeron (if that's possible)? Would
> > that be feasible? Should I only worry about the kernel and/or X to
> > get the most speed?
>
> As Colin points out, Debian has chosen not to do this because the
> gains for most apps are negligible (5% or so). Things like mp3
> encoders/decoders and the like that are nearly 100% CPU are where the
> real benefit comes. Recompiling glibc and X may help a little. Both
> are monster apps that expect huge amounts of disk and memory to
> compile though.
I'll note that (from an office conversation, so consider it hearsay),
RH's optimizations are restricted to the kernel and glibc. The
cost/reward on anything else is largely prohibitive. Adding XFree86 to
the mix would probably be a win though.
Peace.
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