ביום שלישי 22 אוקטובר 2002, 11:32, Ira Abramov כתב: > Quoting Eli Marmor, from the post of Tue, 22 Oct: > because some people prefer "plain vanilla" with no extra optimizations. > that's what Gentoo is for - for the people who DO. > > and you'll be surprised, ppl still run a few 486 machines here and > there. not for desktop machines, the debate here is about desktops. In kdelibs mailing list there was an intersting debate on that subject.
> > But the real mystery is the amazing results that Diego achieved ON THE > > SAME COMPUTER; If 386-compiled executables run faster than 586-compiled > > and 686-compiled, then RH decision is clear and understood, but the > > amazing results are less understood. > > > > Anybody from Intel to explain how it is possible? > > ofcourse. the binary could be in the cache, or some libraries needed to > swap out, or some random daemon to be started... the first start is > always slower than the following. there are 501 parameters that can > influence this, and the test was not done in laboratory conditions. > > what's your obsession with his results? I tried it a few times, after a while it got shorter, but I do think that this is the normal ammount of time I spend looking at ksplash. ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]