On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 05:46:54PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 11:07:34AM -0400, Edward Guldemond wrote:
> > It's feasible, and if you recompile from Debian sources, you can meet
> > all of the dependencies. There's only one problem though: most
> > packages are compiled with (reasonably) sane optimizations. There won't
> > be many performance gains. If I had to recompile four parts of my
> > system from source, they would be, in this order:
> >
> > 1. glibc, because it is THE library that all programs rely on
> > 2. gcc, because it might speed up compiles
> > 3. kernel, because a correctly tweaked kernel is a thing of beauty
> > 4. XFree86, because I had to include a fourth (X takes FOREVER to
> > build)
> >
> > Even then I'm not sure that you'd get many performance gains. Remember
> > Knuth: "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
> >
> > This approach used to be valid back in the days of Slackware 2.0 (which
> > I fondly remember but am happy in these days), but not because of speed
> > increases usually, but usually because at the rate software was written,
> > your distro inevitably never had the updated version of the packages you
> > wanted, or never had this new software package. Now, it's not so bad.
> > I find Debian runs fine on my 486 DX2/66, my PII 400, and my P4 1.7 GhZ,
> > and that's just at home. Don't get me started on my SPARC at work! :-)
>
> You have a sparc, and you didn't include openssl in your list of
> software to recompile ? It must be a very fast sparc
The 'magic 4' are for my Intel boxen. Sparc is an entirely different
animal. It's my baby...
Possibly computer obssed,
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