> I've got a Pentium III Coppermine (Celeron?) 866 MHz processor. Now, I > typically install from RPM's, because it's so easy. But I was just > thinking that many of these RPM's have i386 or noarch in their names. > Does this mean that they're running slower on my processor than they > would if I downloaded source and compiled? And if I *did* download
Yes. But usually not noticeably so. Redhat has kernels compiled for i586, i686, and athlon, and I think they do glibc the same. If you have something specific that you want sped up, you might try it, but I would be surprised if it gave more than a 5% bump to any application. In addition, I believe that the RedHat Optimization settings are -O2. I don't remember what the highest setting is for gcc, but if you specify -O9 I'm sure you'll get it. On the other hand, some of these aren't as well tested, or cause problems in buggy code. > source and compile, would RedHat network still keep me up to date for > security patches and such? Absolutely not. How would it know? My recommendation - keep with the stock stuff. The only thing I've found that was worth compiling is compute-bound stuff, like mjpegtools, which I don't think RH ships anyway. Most of your other stuff doesn't matter. Jon > > Thanks! > > Ben > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
