Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

[Dale]

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

Heck, the mobo most likely cost more than your whole laptop.  Froogle 
reports over $700.00 for that thing.  O_O   I wouldn't want the light 
bill for that thing tho.  I would like to see foldingathome running on 
it.  LOL  Gkrellm would be fun to watch.

Dale

:-)  :-)