Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 23/02/12 22:11, Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 23/02/12 12:44, Mick wrote: >>>> On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 10:22:40 Willie WY Wong wrote: >>>> >>>> The irony is that older boxen which would benefit most from building >>>> from >>>> source are constrained in resources to achieve this and have to >>>> resort to >>>> installing bin packages. >>> >>> I doubt that the bin package will be slower than the one compiled from >>> source. I predict the reverse, in fact. The bin package will perform >>> better. >>> >>> Why don't you test it with an online browser benchmark? You can >>> quickpkg the current installed version, emerge the -bin version. You >>> can later emerge -C the -bin version and emerge -K the one you >>> quickpkg'ed. >> >> I try to avoid pre-compiled software for the opposite reason of what you >> think. What makes you think that software designed and compiled to >> utilize all the good parts of my system would run slower than a software >> designed to run on any CPU/hardware out there? This is the first time I >> ever saw anyone make this claim. Can you shed some light on this? > > Already did in my other post. > > Also, your assumption is wrong. Binary packages are not designed to run > on any CPU and hardware out there. They are designed to run on specific > architectures, and with a minimum requirement of some specific CPU. > firefox-bin will certainly not run on a PPC or MIPS machine running > Linux, for example. > > >
Actually, I can install the same binaries on a AMD machine, a Intel based machine and they work. Thing is, on my machine, I enable MARCH=native and everything is compiled for my CPU. Since I have AMD, they may not run or may be buggy if ran on a Intel machine. That's what I have always been told. Have I been told the wrong thing for the last 8 or 9 years? Am I right in reading as the rest is Firefox specific? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
