On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 07:43:02PM -0400, Oleg wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > You get most of the speed increases by recompiling a very small number > > of things. > > This is true for applications in the following wording "you get most of the > speed increase by optimizing small parts of the program". For something like > Debian however, you can't possibly know in advance where the users' > bottleneck will happen to be. BTW, Gentoo users say their systems "feel" a > lot faster overall. > > As to compiling from deb sources (some else mentioned it in this thread), the > one big inconvenience is that "apt-get upgrade" will overwrite your optimized > program as soon as its next [sub]version is available. >
The best you could probably ask for would be an i686 distribution. Also, you might start with individual packages like libc and first then other libraries... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
