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Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 23/02/12 22:11, Dale wrote: |
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>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> On 23/02/12 12:44, Mick wrote: |
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>>>> On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 10:22:40 Willie WY Wong wrote: |
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>>>> The irony is that older boxen which would benefit most from building |
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>>>> from |
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>>>> source are constrained in resources to achieve this and have to |
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>>>> resort to |
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>>>> installing bin packages. |
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>>> I doubt that the bin package will be slower than the one compiled from |
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>>> source. I predict the reverse, in fact. The bin package will perform |
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>>> better. |
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>>> Why don't you test it with an online browser benchmark? You can |
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>>> quickpkg the current installed version, emerge the -bin version. You |
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>>> can later emerge -C the -bin version and emerge -K the one you |
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>>> quickpkg'ed. |
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>> I try to avoid pre-compiled software for the opposite reason of what you |
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>> think. What makes you think that software designed and compiled to |
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>> utilize all the good parts of my system would run slower than a software |
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>> designed to run on any CPU/hardware out there? This is the first time I |
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>> ever saw anyone make this claim. Can you shed some light on this? |
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> Already did in my other post. |
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> Also, your assumption is wrong. Binary packages are not designed to run |
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> on any CPU and hardware out there. They are designed to run on specific |
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> architectures, and with a minimum requirement of some specific CPU. |
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> firefox-bin will certainly not run on a PPC or MIPS machine running |
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> Linux, for example. |
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Actually, I can install the same binaries on a AMD machine, a Intel |
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based machine and they work. Thing is, on my machine, I enable |
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MARCH=native and everything is compiled for my CPU. Since I have AMD, |
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they may not run or may be buggy if ran on a Intel machine. That's what |
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I have always been told. Have I been told the wrong thing for the last |
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8 or 9 years? |
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Am I right in reading as the rest is Firefox specific? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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-- |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |
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