Re: [Nolug] Gentoo?

From: -ray <ray_at_ops.selu.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:59:15 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307310055410.31092-100000@romulus.csd.selu.edu>

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alex wrote:

> I can qualitatively ;) say that I get better performance after compiling
> X and the kernel, but I believe a lot of that is because the Crusoe
> emulates the i386. And if you already have a slow disk. and/or your ram
> is maxed out, which is the case for most laptops...then you want to
> squeeze everything out of it, right?

I used to do make world on my freebsd boxes and i would swear that they
ran a whole lot faster. But it was probably entirely psychological. :)

Who cares about performance? Compiling your entire system from source is
just cool and you know it!

ray

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