[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 27 Mar 2000, at 11:15, Bill Caskey wrote: > > > 1. I'm running on a laptop with a 1.3 Gb hard drive and I want the system > > as lean as possible. By compiling, I can optimize for a pentium and > > eliminate > > the debug/exceptions code. Smaller footprint. > > Are you recompiling your entire Debian system, or just kde? Or might kde be > your first step in recompiling? Are you recompiling from *.deb source packages > and then recreating the deb binaries? > > Reason I ask: although I've just bought a new laptop, with lots of hard drive > space, I have wondered how the Debian binaries are compiled in general -- for > some lowest common denominator of CPU (386? 486?), whereas gcc could possibly > do much better with the right switches for the Pentiums (I,II,III). > > Problem is that the thought of recompiling *everything* is a big daunting, > nevermind time consuming. However, for laptops, it should be worth it. And > there's something inside me which says, "why aren't you taking full advantage > of your hardware...?" > > Kirk > ---- > Kirk Lowery > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Think Debian is compiled for 486 Word on the street is compiling for 586/686 doesn't make that much of a difference As you point out, it's a daunting task. If the above statement is accurate, a pointless one too. Jonathan
