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Re: libc6 optimizations



[20030822] Mental Patient <mental@neverlight.com> wrote:

> Earlier today I was toying with the idea of recompiling libc6 with a 
> bunch of optimization flags. I did an apt-get source libc6 and added the 
>  flags I wanted. I built binaries via "fakeroot ./debian/rules binary" 
> and did a dpkg -i on the resulting deb files. Well, the install hung and 
> failed. ls would segfault, ssh would still work. Things were... broken.

Don't even think to compile glibc with O3 or Os. It breaks
baddly ;) 
Debian is quite optimized and runs really fast although it's compiled 
for i386. If you want to speed things up more try compiling kde, xfree, 
gnome, mozilla etc.

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