On 8/14/06, Martin Neubauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Ronald G Minnich ([email protected]) wrote:
> erik quanstrom wrote:
> >"it shaves several seconds off a build of libc on a 200MHz PPro".
> >and then they use gcc. kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
>
> yes, but think about it. It's so important!
>
> Why, a few seconds on a 200mhz machine is ... maybe .3 seconds on that
> kernel build on a new machine. If you add up those .3 seconds enough, it
> could be a year of your life.
>
> ron
Yes, makes you forget the decade sacrificed to gcc...
Martin
Spend days building Ricer Linux so you can save .2 seconds loading
Firefox... I have met guys who do this, and talk about how great it is
on their (new) machines. I ask them how long they'll have to keep
using Gentoo to make up for the day of compilation.
That said, I have done Gentoo on an old SPARCstation in hopes that it
would run nicely. Splack Linux turned out better.
John
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"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" -- Shakespeare, Henry VI
