Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > There was that whole "Gentoo is for ricers" website which generally > mocked the gentoo community for their 'futile' quest to eck every last > ounce of CPU power from their machines. The gentoo community generally
Pretty funny website! Their URL is pretty fitting, too: http://funroll-loops.org/ > had a sense of humour though, and i dont think the site is very > malicious itself. Besides - whats wrong with optimising to get the most > power out of your machine? I call that efficiency. ;) I like the website because some of the criticisms are quite valid. (Some are just caricatures.) Like the optimizing thing: Their (valid) point is that spending hours of tweaking to get 1% extra efficiency is actually less efficient. It's a diminishing return. -- G a b r i e l M . B e d d i n g f i e l d -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
