On 07/21/2010 12:39 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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
Might I suggest a small hardware upgrade: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6100/SR56x0/H8QGi-F.cfm
