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On Wednesday 04 February 2009 18:55:07 Momesso Andrea wrote: |
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> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:59:44PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 04 February 2009 15:31:26 Momesso Andrea wrote: |
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> > > My question can be put like this: Do binary distro's per package |
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> > > optimiziations override the benefit of having arch specific |
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> > > optimiziations that gentoo allows? |
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> > That can only be answered with valid benchmarks on paper in front of you. |
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> > Have you performed valid benchmark tests? |
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> Nope, if I had there would have been no reason to ask... :) |
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Then your question is nonsensical and is best answered as: |
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As so many others have stated, the mythical performance benefits of gentoo are |
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no longer applicable in the main. When i386 was the standard optimization |
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things were different, but no longer. |
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The major benefit of Gentoo to most users is USE, not CFLAGS |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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