Re: CPU optimization
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:21:58AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> :: Mircea Luca writes:
>
> >> I guess that recompiling every package is not worth the
> >> trouble, but recompiling multimedia and CPU intensive ones may
> >> be a major gain (say, MPEG players and such).
>
> > Yes,I was thinking more like X ,KDE ,Gnome and multimedia so I guess
> > the few things left won't take that much time.:-).
>
> Is it safe to recompile X with different flags? IIRC, X 3.3.6
> shouldn't even be compiled with gcc 2.95.2 (the Makefile would look
> for gcc272), because 2.95 would miscompile it. (I could be wrong).
I've been running an X compiled with 2.95.2 since that version of
gcc has been released (I compiled it too :). I've not had X crash
on me. Not once.
So there. :)
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