Re: two more architectures?

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 07:43:02PM -0400, Oleg wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> > You get most of the speed increases by recompiling a very small number 
> > of things.
> 
> This is true for applications in the following wording "you get most of the 
> speed increase by optimizing small parts of the program". For something like 
> Debian however, you can't possibly know in advance where the users' 
> bottleneck will happen to be. BTW, Gentoo users say their systems "feel" a 
> lot faster overall.
> 
> As to compiling from deb sources (some else mentioned it in this thread), the 
> one big inconvenience is that "apt-get upgrade" will overwrite your optimized 
> program as soon as its next [sub]version is available.
> 

The best you could probably ask for would be an i686 distribution.

Also, you might start with individual packages like libc and first then other
libraries...