Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

[Alan McKinnon]

On 14/03/2013 16:07, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2013-03-14, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> I was wondering.  Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to
>> compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros?  Maybe Gentoo compared
>> to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such?
>
> I just did a test, and they're all the same.
>
> CDs/DVDS of various distros dropped from a height of 1m all hit the
> floor simultaneously [there are random variations due to aerodynamic
> instability of the disk shape, but it's the same for all distros]. If
> launched horizontally with spin to provide attitude stability (thrown
> like a frisbee), they all fly the same.


nonononononono, gentoo is much faster.

I did the same test, but comparing Centos on a DVD with Gentoo on a USB
stick. The stick tends to fall about 8% faster, mostly due to removing
those aerodynamic instabilities causing lift effects from the wing-like
shape of the DVD.

I consider this a perfectly valid test as Gentoo is designed to let me
remove unwanted side-effects from the environment. The shape of a DVD
was unwanted, so I made a tweak to take it out.



p.s. good joke on your part :-)
Dale is never going to live this one down. But he's a big boy, he can
take it.



>
> The point being, you're going to have to define "speed".
>
> Does speed refer to
>
>  Installation time?
>
>  Boot time?
>
>  Linpack?
>
>  Dhrystone?
>
>  Whetstone?
>
>  Time for me to figure out how to fix a configuration problem?
>
>  Time to do to an update on a machine that's been unplugged for a year?
>
>  Time to to produce a packaged version of some random C program that
>  comes with a Makefile that uses autotools?
>
>  Time for a reported bug to get fixed?
>
>


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Alan McKinnon
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