On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a > tad bit faster?
See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road. If you did get it all to work right, and suffered through the emerge -e world required, your computer would in fact run a tiny tad faster, where tad is defined is "a teensy weensy little bit, so small you can hardly see it with a magnifying glass" Not worth the effort IMHO. Of course, there are ricers out there that will swear by it and declare that their machine runs much faster, but very few if any of them ever produce some actual numbers... -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list