Re: two more architectures?
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:41:37PM -0800, Torrin wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 05:21:35PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > You get most of the speed increases by recompiling a very small number
> > of things. It's not worth the added complexity trying to do it for
> > everything.
>
> Which small number of things is that? We got libc from 1 post. What
> else?
Random guess: kernel (which anybody halfway serious about performance
does anyway), libc, XFree86, openssl, maybe a few other highly
CPU-intensive things. Anything that hits memory, disk, or other I/O
heavily isn't worth it.
Of course, I haven't done any benchmarks either. :)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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