Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

[Dale]

Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote:
>>
>>> Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a
>>> tad bit faster?
>>>
>> See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road.
>>
>> If you did get it all to work right, and suffered through the emerge -e
>> world required, your computer would in fact run a tiny tad faster,
>> where tad is defined is "a teensy weensy little bit, so small you can
>> hardly see it with a magnifying glass"
>>
>> Not worth the effort IMHO. Of course, there are ricers out there that
>> will swear by it and declare that their machine runs much faster, but
>> very few if any of them ever produce some actual numbers...
>>
>>
>
> Thanks for the post.
>
> I actually started working on  this project late last night... My target test
> machine is an "getting old" Compaq R3000 with a 3ghz P4. What I'm going to do
> is just what you suggested.
>
> First I'm going to finish freshening the laptop. This is my
> daily "hack-n-slash" computer, so no worries clobbering it. I'm near the end
> of finishing an  "emerge -e world" that was preceded with two rounds
> of "emerge -e system"
>
> Next step is some exhaustive bench marking. All suggestions welcomed.
>
> Then once completed, I'' make the change to chost from i686 to pentium4,
> following the docs on the net. Once done and smoothed out... another
> freshening as mentioned above, followed up with identical runs of what ever
> benchmarks I ran before...
>
> Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates or
> postulates. :')
>
> Cheers.
>
>
>

There is a script that will take care of the emerge and you only have to
do it once.  It's on the forums but I still have a copy if you want me
to email it to you.

Dale

:-)  :-)
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