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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 3.4 and ~x86
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 15:22:39
Message-Id: 200409191722.41950.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 3.4 and ~x86 by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Sunday 19 September 2004 05:20, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 08:02, Daniel Goller wrote:
3 > > ^^ yeah sure like we will have more devs help test a new toolchain, you
4 > > forget it doesnt come with translucency and shadows, something that
5 > > guarantees you plenty of (dev) testers, what's gcc, just some thing
6 > > portage calls to build stuff, who would care about that?
7 >
8 > C'mon, we run Gentoo. Just tell people it optimizes their code better
9 > and everything will run faster. They'll swarm to it.
10
11 Besides, while the new xorg offers all that eyecandy, it also means that x is
12 a lot slower than it needs to be so it is not actually practical to use it on
13 day to day basis. (Luckilly the slowness can be stopped very fast with
14 killall xcompmgr ;-)
15
16 Paul
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19 Paul de Vrieze
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