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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> They also had no "control" group. |
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> It would also have been nice to have seen them test Gentoo (optimized) |
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> against Gentoo (non-optimized). Testing should have also been done on |
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> the SAME machine. Not "identical" machines, but the exact same one. |
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> The reason for this is there is the possibility that hardware could be |
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> causing a discrepancy in the results. |
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This is the main thing that bugs me - the programs tested were built |
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with no more opimizations than any other distribution uses (-O2 is |
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extremely common). |
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Another good analysis of the 'gentoo approach' would have been trends |
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based - if I set gnome in my USE flags, how will the featureset of my |
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entire system change over time? Can such features be added and removed |
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on the fly in other distributions? (probably not) |
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Brad |
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