On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 09:15:39PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > On 5 Jul 2003, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 18:43, Rthoreau wrote: > > > I have been doing some research lately about the performance difference > > > between binary packages, and those compiled from source. From what I have > > > learned so far their really is not a good tool to verify the difference. > > > <snip> > > For 99% of cases its not worth it. > > yup.. usually not worth the time or $$$ to for performance increase
I don't think this can be true unless you have a metered internet connection. For an unmetered connection, the $$$ == 0. Debian source packages are invariably compiled without error, so if your machine is too slow to do compiles in the background while you work, you can just compile while you're asleep from a cron job. The time involved is just that to type 'dpkg -i newlybuiltpackage.deb', which is trivial. So even if the resulting performance increase is minute, you haven't actually lost anything in achieving it. If the suggestion effect of compiling your own packages is enough to make you think the machine's faster, it's still worth it... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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