Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
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On Wednesday 31 March 2004 03:26 pm, William Ballard wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:13:34PM -0500, Gary L Greene Jr wrote:
> > I've seen some benchmarking on this from a friend of mine and for most
> > apps you see a very slight gain, but nothing that makes it a "must have"
> > option, especially when you weigh the downside (needing the time to
> > rebuild the app locally). The overall gain I noted from his tests
> > suggested about +0.75% gain in performance. For me, I'd rather be using
> > my machine for something more productive.
>
> The rise of Gentoo and the rise of AMD Athlon fanboys probably
> coincides. Naively (having seen no benchmarks) one would assume Athlon
> would benefit the most from natively Athlon-compiled code.
>
> At least, this would drive the *desire* to compile everything myself.
The only packages that really make any difference for rebuilding specifically
for an Athlon processor are the kernel, glibc, a few of the multimedia apps
(xine, mplayer, et el), and any game that is specifically coded to use the
SSE2 or 3D-Now technologies. All others don't get you that much of a gain for
your buck.
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Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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