-------Original Message------- From: flacycads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 02/25/03 05:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?
<snip> Anyone who dual boots with windows on the same hardware knows that windows performance is noticably better than Linux, and that this is most likely due to the highly x86 optimized Intel compiler. Given that, it's going to be hard to convince me that trying to optimize Linux and gcc for newer cpus is not worth the trouble. However, I'll keep an open mind on the subject, and I'm certainly not an expert. Robert Crawford <snip> Robert, I thought anything after Windows NT runs on Pentium and above (or K6 and above if you use AMD). If that's the case, then it's not anymore optimized than Mandrake, so any increased performance on a Windows box is not do to optimization. If you truly want to see what effect optimization may have for your system, recompile the kernel and run some benchmarks (actually before and after). Since everything else runs on top of the kernel, it recompiling it should give the most bang for your buck. I can tell you, though, that on my systems (K6-450 and Duron 1.3ghz), removing stuff that's not used in the kernel has a bigger impact on performance than optimizing for the CPU (maybe it has something to do with AMD vs Intel, I don't know, but the chip optimization seemed to have little impact). Joeb
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