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On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:28:01 am Dale wrote: |
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> Jerry McBride wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >> On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: |
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> >>> Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a |
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> >>> tad bit faster? |
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> >> |
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> >> See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road. |
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> >> |
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> >> If you did get it all to work right, and suffered through the emerge -e |
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> >> world required, your computer would in fact run a tiny tad faster, |
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> >> where tad is defined is "a teensy weensy little bit, so small you can |
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> >> hardly see it with a magnifying glass" |
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> >> |
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> >> Not worth the effort IMHO. Of course, there are ricers out there that |
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> >> will swear by it and declare that their machine runs much faster, but |
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> >> very few if any of them ever produce some actual numbers... |
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> > |
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> > Thanks for the post. |
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> > |
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> > I actually started working on this project late last night... My target |
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> > test machine is an "getting old" Compaq R3000 with a 3ghz P4. What I'm |
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> > going to do is just what you suggested. |
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> > |
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> > First I'm going to finish freshening the laptop. This is my |
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> > daily "hack-n-slash" computer, so no worries clobbering it. I'm near the |
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> > end of finishing an "emerge -e world" that was preceded with two rounds |
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> > of "emerge -e system" |
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> > |
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> > Next step is some exhaustive bench marking. All suggestions welcomed. |
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> > |
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> > Then once completed, I'' make the change to chost from i686 to pentium4, |
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> > following the docs on the net. Once done and smoothed out... another |
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> > freshening as mentioned above, followed up with identical runs of what |
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> > ever benchmarks I ran before... |
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> > Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates or |
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> > postulates. :') |
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> > |
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> > Cheers. |
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> There is a script that will take care of the emerge and you only have to |
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> do it once. It's on the forums but I still have a copy if you want me |
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> to email it to you. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Thanks for the offer. I'm almost finished the re-compiling stuff however. Why |
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not post the script anyways? Someone else may be doing the same thing. |
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Cheers. |
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From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride |
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