On 07-Jun-2002 Andrew Pollock wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working in what is a Mandrake shop, but relatively open minded about > Debian. I'm already making inroads into getting Debian used as the distro > of choice for infrastructure boxes. Thanks to FAI. Nice work Thomas. > > Mandrake alledgedly compile all their binaries with Pentium optimisation. > I was recently asked if Debian's binaries were optimised. I didn't think > they were. I was wondering, in reality, if there were any significant > performance gain from doing it? >
think about most apps you use. How many really depend on the CPU oomph once they are running? Most apps are user or i/o bound, especially in the GUI. I think it makes sense to have a few critical parts optimized -- glibc, X, etc. Optimizing gnome-panel or xclock seems like a waste of time. Also a pentium optmized bin may be less useful under say a AMD Duron proc. By kepping Debian vanilla we work everywhere easily. > Let's say I wanted to keep a local package repository build from the > source packages, how trivial is it when (re) building the packages to > enable Pentium optimisation? > as someone pointed out pentium-builder is the key. However, you have to keep up with version changes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
