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Re: pros/cons of installing from source



Daniel Graham Palmer <daniel@cardboardbox.org.uk> writes:
> The only platform I've ever seen a real benefit from compiling
> everything with arch specific GCC flags is the 32bit SPARCs.

You've never done any floating-point-intensive programming,
apparently...

Gcc may not be as good as icc in extreme cases, but it's certainly
capable of quite a bit.

-miles
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or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and then it's over.  --Ian Wolff



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