> Where did that bit of apocrypha come from, and why is it > parroted by so many people?
<snip> Depending on what you do with the system it still can be quite true. For example, there is a known bug in the RH distro of Perl that leaves it running 10x slower than a locally compiled version. There are also quite a few packages that still come compiled with '-g', or depend on 15 shared object lib's that you don't use but now cannot turn off. If you are trying to squeeze performance out of a box then any kind of cruft will slow you down. You can also look at library-dependency hell as a form of performance hit: if you spend X hours trying to work around the library glitches it's that much dead time on the box you aren't using. -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421 lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508
