Re: [Nolug] Gentoo?

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 00:59, -ray wrote:
> 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!

No denying that... But I exercise my CPUs with distributed.net.

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