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On Thursday 22 July 2010 00:18:05 Bill Longman wrote: |
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> On 07/21/2010 12:39 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 21 July 2010 17:49:46 Bill Longman wrote: |
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> >> And to play devil's advocate, I'll chime in with my experience. The 4.4 |
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> >> GCC, at least on AMD CPUs, creates noticeably faster code. I recompiled |
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> >> all my packages after I upgraded to 4.4 and it was a noticeable |
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> >> difference. |
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> >> But, to make perfectly clear what Alan and Dale have stated previously, |
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> >> it is not a requirement to recompile anything. The binaries that are |
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> >> created still call the same system calls as they did before. The kernel |
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> >> still publishes them in the same locations. And to prove to yourself |
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> >> this is true, grab a statically linked binary, compiled for a stock |
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> >> standard i686, and run it on your machine. |
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> > I'd love to be able to experience the speedups of gcc-4.4 and by rights I |
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> > should be able to - my last "rip gentoo apart and put it back together |
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> > again" stunt needed an emerge -e world to fix it all. |
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> > But, and this is the bit that makes me cry, the slowdown from KDE-4.4.5 |
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> > has obliterated all that advantage several times over..... |
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> > raster *really* needs to hurrry up now and release e17 |
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> Might I suggest a small hardware upgrade: |
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> http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6100/SR56x0/H8QGi-F.cfm |
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Might I submit that that will be a tad difficult to squeez into this: |
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# dmidecode | grep -B3 "Product Name" |
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Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes |
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System Information |
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Manufacturer: Dell Inc. |
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Product Name: XPS M1530 |
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:-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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