Re: Speeding up debian ... ?
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 03:43:47PM +0200, aradorlinux@yahoo.es wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 03:29:37 +0100
> David selby <debian@pusspaws.net> wrote:
> > Would there be much of a speed increase, enough to warrent doing it ?
>
> Yes.
>
> (You can listen people saying "no"; but those people can't prove
> how its posible that a optimized compilation of some apps seems to make
> a diference in the real world)
Obviously some applications (i.e. CPU-intensive ones) will gain. The
burden of proof is on you to show that it's worth it for the majority of
packages, though, since I/O-intensive applications are unlikely to get a
useful gain from processor optimization.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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