Switching from Arch to Debian Sid.

[Ananda Samaddar <ananda.samaddar@vfemail.net>]

Hello all,

I'm an ex-Debian user who has been using Arch for the past 6 months or
so.  Some annoyances with it have prompted to give Sid a shot.  I used
testing for years but got fed up of waiting for updates. I have a few
questions.

1. How stable is AMD64 Sid in general?  I'd like to hear users'
opinions on this.

2. Are Debian packages compiled with optimisations (eg -03)?  How much
of a difference would this make to performance if they aren't?

3. Has anyone managed to compile Swiftweasel or a
profile-guided-optimisation version of Firefox?  I'm using Swiftweasel
on Arch and it makes a massive difference to performance.

4. How often will I have to safe-upgrade with Sid and how often do
dependencies break?

thanks,

Ananda