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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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> See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road. |
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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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> 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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Thanks for the post. |
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I actually started working on this project late last night... My target test |
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machine is an "getting old" Compaq R3000 with a 3ghz P4. What I'm going to do |
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is just what you suggested. |
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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 end |
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of finishing an "emerge -e world" that was preceded with two rounds |
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of "emerge -e system" |
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Next step is some exhaustive bench marking. All suggestions welcomed. |
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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 ever |
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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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Cheers. |
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From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride |
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