[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.