Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
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- Subject: Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
- From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:01:42 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] pan.2004.03.31.20.01.41.810333@smurf.noris.de>
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Hi, Sean Harshbarger wrote:
> It would be nice to have support for optimized
> binaries. IMHO it would help Debian out a lot.
As far as I recall, the performance gains from compiling everything with
your-favorite-optimizer-settings aren't _that_ great -- typically smaller
than what you'd gain by waiting a couple of months before buying your
computer.
If you have a performance problem, recompiling the pieces that actually
are too slow is still faster than to wait for your box to compile
*everything*. For myself, however, I fail to see the point.
(In a previous life, I ran an entire ISP on my own home-brew
Linux distribution. You might brand me as a masochist, but you can't
accuse me of not knowing whereof I speak. ;-)
--
Matthias Urlichs
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