On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:36:27PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > Whenever someone rants about Gentoo's processor optimisations
> > and states some overinflated performance boost such as 10%-20%, all I
> > can do is make a a feeble rebuttal stating that it's more like (insert
> > low figure without much solid evidence - e.g.. 5%) with exceptions
> > such as glibc, X, multimedia applications, mozilla and OpenOffice. So
> > then they counter that it's still an increase. Ok, so what strengths
> > does Debian have to make a comeback with? Unlike Gentoo, Debian has
> > quality assurance and security teams. We have a strict policy and bug
> > resolution procedures. But they won't listen and still say Gentoo.
>
> It's very depressing that some work just get lost amidst a long thread.
>
> http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/athlon-debian.html.en
>
> States my evil plans.
Very nice. Does anyone know how to get apt to give locally
compiled packages higher priority than official packages? I've been
playing with the release pinnings, but haven't gotten it to work.
Also, what apps do you think would make good benchmark cases for
showing how much is (or isn't) gained?
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