On 14/03/2013 16:07, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-03-14, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to >> compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared >> to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such? > > I just did a test, and they're all the same. > > CDs/DVDS of various distros dropped from a height of 1m all hit the > floor simultaneously [there are random variations due to aerodynamic > instability of the disk shape, but it's the same for all distros]. If > launched horizontally with spin to provide attitude stability (thrown > like a frisbee), they all fly the same.
nonononononono, gentoo is much faster. I did the same test, but comparing Centos on a DVD with Gentoo on a USB stick. The stick tends to fall about 8% faster, mostly due to removing those aerodynamic instabilities causing lift effects from the wing-like shape of the DVD. I consider this a perfectly valid test as Gentoo is designed to let me remove unwanted side-effects from the environment. The shape of a DVD was unwanted, so I made a tweak to take it out. p.s. good joke on your part :-) Dale is never going to live this one down. But he's a big boy, he can take it. > > The point being, you're going to have to define "speed". > > Does speed refer to > > Installation time? > > Boot time? > > Linpack? > > Dhrystone? > > Whetstone? > > Time for me to figure out how to fix a configuration problem? > > Time to do to an update on a machine that's been unplugged for a year? > > Time to to produce a packaged version of some random C program that > comes with a Makefile that uses autotools? > > Time for a reported bug to get fixed? > > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
