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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh?
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:53:06
Message-Id: 200902051950.13279.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > Stroller wrote:
3 > > [...]
4 > > To be honest, I am surprised this notion of "optimised executables" has
5 > > stuck around long enough that you've heard it, but it's an old joke to
6 > > many of us who were around in 2004.
7 >
8 > But AFAIK, it *was* faster because Gentoo used the egcs fork of GCC
9 > which did produce faster code.
10
11 gentoo never did that.