On Wednesday 21 July 2010 17:49:46 Bill Longman wrote: > And to play devil's advocate, I'll chime in with my experience. The 4.4 > GCC, at least on AMD CPUs, creates noticeably faster code. I recompiled > all my packages after I upgraded to 4.4 and it was a noticeable > difference. > > But, to make perfectly clear what Alan and Dale have stated previously, > it is not a requirement to recompile anything. The binaries that are > created still call the same system calls as they did before. The kernel > still publishes them in the same locations. And to prove to yourself > this is true, grab a statically linked binary, compiled for a stock > standard i686, and run it on your machine.
I'd love to be able to experience the speedups of gcc-4.4 and by rights I should be able to - my last "rip gentoo apart and put it back together again" stunt needed an emerge -e world to fix it all. But, and this is the bit that makes me cry, the slowdown from KDE-4.4.5 has obliterated all that advantage several times over..... raster *really* needs to hurrry up now and release e17 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
