On Monday 21 October 2002 22:51, Eli Marmor wrote: > Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > In precompiled kde 2.2.2 from mdk8.1 (i586) and self-compiled 3.1 (i686) > > I did not find any speed improove and in startup even a 5 seconds less: > > load -> kde2.2.2 10 sec, kde3.1 15sec > > konqui both about 2 secs. > > Do you mean that no progress has been achieved by Intel/AMD in the last > 15 years, except for more Hertz's? > > If the latest processors can't perform PER HERTZ more than a 15 years > old processor (386), then what have they done with the billions they > burned for R&D? > > Amazing. > > Maybe after all, Mandrake's and Gentoo's utilizing the extra 586/686 > abilities, is not a big deal. And maybe RedHat is right (in avoiding > the 586/686 extra instructions and optimizations).
One shouldn't forget that the biggest performance benefit comes not from Gentoo's ability to apply optimizations globally but because of its configurability; you can forbid Gentoo to compile in certain features, thus drastically reducing the bloat in your applications (for example, I hate gnome and I ask Gentoo to turn off gnome support in everything I compile) -- "I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?" ================================================================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]
