On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:35:44AM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: | Hi, | | Q: Does it make sense to recompile some packages from source if I | have a fast cpu?
It depends ... | And if yes, when will it make sense? From PIII or Athlon? And what | kind of packages? X11? Gimp? Mozilla? CPU intensive packages. X usually sits around twiddling its thumbs until you finally move the mouse or press a key. Either that, or it is waiting for the video card's memory to catch up (IO bound). If you have some app that has low IO, but high computation then it would make sense to optimize it. Otherwise you're likely to get little (or no) _noticeable_ gain. HTH, -D
