Re: debian 'gentoo-like'
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:34:28PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thursday 03 February 2005 03:58 pm, Manu wrote:
>
> > I was reading the documentation on how to build source
> > package on debian.. is there an automated way so that
> > I can directly get the source and rebuild
> > automatically the source package?
>
> Not really, no. Nothing is stopping you from trying, though.
>
> > Also, is there any gain in performance ? has anyone
> > notice any differences?
>
> For the vast majority of stuff, not really, no, unless you're a Gentoo
> ricer. Then it's 2 trillion times faster in your head alone.
>
Ah, you bastard, you did it again!!! Had to clean my keyboard the first
time round when I read about the Gentoo ricer. Luckily this time round
I was somewhat prepared. It's hilarious!!! I have a clear picture of a
typical ricer in my head...
> http://www.funroll-loops.org/
>
> Packages that benefit from subarchitecture optimizations tend to have
> subarchitecture-specific packages already (for example, I have
> mplayer-k7 and kernel-image-2.6.10-k7 installed; you can probably guess
> my subarchitecture by the package name).
>
> --
> Paul Johnson
> baloo@ursine.ca
> http://ursine.ca/~baloo/
>
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