Re: Pentium optimised vs not
On 07-Jun-2002 Andrew Pollock wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working in what is a Mandrake shop, but relatively open minded about
> Debian. I'm already making inroads into getting Debian used as the distro
> of choice for infrastructure boxes. Thanks to FAI. Nice work Thomas.
>
> Mandrake alledgedly compile all their binaries with Pentium optimisation.
> I was recently asked if Debian's binaries were optimised. I didn't think
> they were. I was wondering, in reality, if there were any significant
> performance gain from doing it?
>
think about most apps you use. How many really depend on the CPU oomph once
they are running? Most apps are user or i/o bound, especially in the GUI.
I think it makes sense to have a few critical parts optimized -- glibc, X, etc.
Optimizing gnome-panel or xclock seems like a waste of time.
Also a pentium optmized bin may be less useful under say a AMD Duron proc. By
kepping Debian vanilla we work everywhere easily.
> Let's say I wanted to keep a local package repository build from the
> source packages, how trivial is it when (re) building the packages to
> enable Pentium optimisation?
>
as someone pointed out pentium-builder is the key. However, you have to keep
up with version changes.
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