Re: pros/cons of installing from source

[Daniel Palmer]

Biggest contenders for optimisation are the kernel and libc. Most 
applications are mainly a series of calls to these two so won't directly 
benefit from by being compiled with *magical* flags.
Debian supply both optimised kernels and to a lesser degree optimised 
libc packages. Use of SIMD extensions etc is something totally 
different, and compiler flags aren't going to do all that much there 
really...

Think of all the dolphins that will die because of the electricity 
wasted pointlessly compiling packages. ^^


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