On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 11:07:34AM -0400, Edward Guldemond wrote: > It's feasible, and if you recompile from Debian sources, you can meet > all of the dependencies. There's only one problem though: most > packages are compiled with (reasonably) sane optimizations. There won't > be many performance gains. If I had to recompile four parts of my > system from source, they would be, in this order: > > 1. glibc, because it is THE library that all programs rely on > 2. gcc, because it might speed up compiles > 3. kernel, because a correctly tweaked kernel is a thing of beauty > 4. XFree86, because I had to include a fourth (X takes FOREVER to > build) > > Even then I'm not sure that you'd get many performance gains. Remember > Knuth: "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." > > This approach used to be valid back in the days of Slackware 2.0 (which > I fondly remember but am happy in these days), but not because of speed > increases usually, but usually because at the rate software was written, > your distro inevitably never had the updated version of the packages you > wanted, or never had this new software package. Now, it's not so bad. > I find Debian runs fine on my 486 DX2/66, my PII 400, and my P4 1.7 GhZ, > and that's just at home. Don't get me started on my SPARC at work! :-)
You have a sparc, and you didn't include openssl in your list of software to recompile ? It must be a very fast sparc Frank > Just my 2 red cents, > > -- > ------------------------------------------ > Edward Guldemond > > Key fingerprint: 29FF 2969 A04E F934 3F03 > 4329 BC56 3AA7 2F57 6735 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
