On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:09:30PM +0100, javier wrote: > Hi, > I am a new Debian user. I used to work in Mandrake and there the x86 > packages are compiled for i586, while in Debian they are compiled for > i386. From my experience, I know you can improve the performance > recompiling the kernel for your particular machine architecture, but I > am not sure about how much you will improve the overall performace > recompiling also some of the packages (as for example glibc).
Gain is actually epsilon except on multimedia heavy applications and the kernel itself. Such packages have processor-feature specific versions. You can also apt-get -b build-dep <package> and apt-get -b source <package> if you *really* want to compile by hand. Alterantively, you can try Gentoo instead. In the end, compiling by hand will waste a few hours to save a few microseconds. What would you rather have the developers doing? Making packages for every CPU sub-arch on the planet, or actually fixing bugs? What would you rather spend *your* time doing? Using your system or compiling packages? The cost/benefit ratio is too low to matter in this. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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