Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 July 2010 02:03:15 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 22 July 2010 00:18:05 Bill Longman wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/22/2010 01:09 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Looks like a quad cpu, each one dual core. I've got one of those in the Data Centre next door and each core is running that new fancy hyper-threading that actually works: It's quad CPU TWELVE core. Just putting four CPUs into the thing will cost a

[gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread fajfusio
HiI've just switched to gcc 4.3.4 from 4.1.2 using gcc-config tool. I don't wantto rebuild any package now. As time goes on my packages will be compiled withnew version. I hope that after a few month there will be only a number ofpackages not compiled with a new gcc. Then I want to recompile them

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 10:53:19 fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: Hi I've just switched to gcc 4.3.4 from 4.1.2 using gcc-config tool. I don't want to rebuild any package now. As time goes on my packages will be compiled with new version. I hope that after a few month there will be only a number of

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 10:53:19 fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: Hi I've just switched to gcc 4.3.4 from 4.1.2 using gcc-config tool. I don't want to rebuild any package now. As time goes on my packages will be compiled with new version. I hope that after a few month there

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/21/2010 03:22 AM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 10:53:19 fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: Hi I've just switched to gcc 4.3.4 from 4.1.2 using gcc-config tool. I don't want to rebuild any package now. As time goes on my packages will be compiled with new version.

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Dale
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

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Longman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 03:36:33PM -0500, Dale wrote My last KDE upgrade made KDE a little faster here as well. It won't be as fast as e17 tho. Since I upgraded gcc a little before that, I wasn't sure if it was gcc building better code or KDE got rid of some garbage. It is a little

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 July 2010 00:18:05 Bill Longman wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 22 July 2010 00:18:05 Bill Longman wrote: 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,