On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:37:42AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > "Llu?s Forns Puigmart?" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I want to do so because it goes really slow (700Mhz!!!) and I > > think it is because of lack of optimitzation. > > What, in particular, do you think is slow? If you're doing intensive > signal-processing tasks on your laptop, then yeah, optimization for > the last couple of cycles is going to make a difference. But you're > probably not doing that, particularly on a laptop. Otherwise, > consensus on the Debian lists is generally that spending human time on > rebuilding things with "better optimization flags" doesn't gain enough > to be worthwhile. > > (...and 700 MHz is probably your CPU speed; no amount of optimization > is going to change that. My home desktop has a 700 MHz Athlon and > runs fine; when I think things are going slow, it's usually because > I'm trying to get at lots of data on a networked filesystem over a > cable modem.)
I totally agree. The laptop I used until only a week ago had a 500Mhz processor and 64Mb of RAM. It ran just fine, unless I wanted to use KDE with all eye-candy enabled while I was running both openoffice and the gimp with a postscript page rendered at 600dpi. So... I generally used ion-devel or WindowMaker as window managers, avoided openoffice if I could, used elinks instead of Mozilla if that was possible, etc. etc. Ran just fine, really. David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
