On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:47:01PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm starting to wonder how much difference gentoo's optimization > actually makes.
Gentoo is much faster than debian. Generally every new distro is faster, cause other distros has i586 or higher optimalization (while debian has i386). It gives a lot in X applications (but also in others) - better memory use, take advantages of many processor specific instructions etc. To speed up my debian I have many packages rebuilded with optimalization flags. But sometimes it's hard to pass flags to compilator. And apt-build is definitely not good for that task. It will be very usefull to standarize it for debian (e.g. adds few lines in every package in debian/rules file with commands to overwrite defaults flags for compilers). But if your debian box is much much slower than gentoo, maybe it's problem with your configuration. I recommend you to check DMA settings for your hard drives- it could be significant for performance. Karol -- | Karol Czachorowski <narel(at)fantastyka.net> | | JID: narel(at)jabber.org GG: 2786028 | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
