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

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 ex

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, cr

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

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 f

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

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 differen

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 mak

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 >>> comp

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 will

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 numbe

[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