Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 22 July 2010 00:18:05 Bill Longman wrote:
On 07/21/2010 12:39 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 17:49:46 Bill Longman wrote:
And to play devil's advocate, I'll chime in with my experience. The 4.4
GCC, at least on AMD CPUs, creates noticeably faster code. I recompiled
all my packages after I upgraded to 4.4 and it was a noticeable
difference.
But, to make perfectly clear what Alan and Dale have stated previously,
it is not a requirement to recompile anything. The binaries that are
created still call the same system calls as they did before. The kernel
still publishes them in the same locations. And to prove to yourself
this is true, grab a statically linked binary, compiled for a stock
standard i686, and run it on your machine.
I'd love to be able to experience the speedups of gcc-4.4 and by rights I
should be able to - my last "rip gentoo apart and put it back together
again" stunt needed an emerge -e world to fix it all.
But, and this is the bit that makes me cry, the slowdown from KDE-4.4.5
has obliterated all that advantage several times over.....
raster *really* needs to hurrry up now and release e17
Might I suggest a small hardware upgrade:
http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6100/SR56x0/H8QGi-F.cfm
Might I submit that that will be a tad difficult to squeez into this:
# dmidecode | grep -B3 "Product Name"
Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: XPS M1530
:-)
Heck, the mobo most likely cost more than your whole laptop. Froogle
reports over $700.00 for that thing. O_O I wouldn't want the light
bill for that thing tho. I would like to see foldingathome running on
it. LOL Gkrellm would be fun to watch.
Dale
:-) :-)
