Re: [gentoo-user] kernels & swap usage

[Philip Webb]

120809 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
> http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2012-08-08-libreoffice-3-6-0.html

Yes, I read that  c 2 hr  ago (smile).

> As someone said, a lot of legacy code is being removed/cleaned/simplified.

It doesn't explain why I saw the same effect with Firefox 14.1 :
perhaps there's been some code-cleaning there too.

> Kernel could be an issue when it comes to swappiness,
> but not when it comes to the amount of memory
> a given version of $CC will use to compile a given package,
> provided that $HARDWARE and $CFLAGS are constant.

That's what I suspected, but wasn't sure about.

Any other thoughts are welcome.

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