Re: Building i686 optimized packages from source

On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:47:26PM +0100, xio wrote: > In your opinion, is the performance gain really worth the effort of > compiling from source? In most cases, no. There are a few exceptions (see the archives) and for these exceptions, optimized versions are normally already available. -- J

Re: Building i686 optimized packages from source

On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:47:26PM +0100, xio wrote: > In your opinion, is the performance gain really worth the effort of > compiling from source? Nobody's ever demonstrated it to be worth it for more than a small minority of packages. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL P

Building i686 optimized packages from source

Hi, I wonder whether anyone could help me with this: I am installing Debian on my new laptop. And I thought I might try building i686 optimized packages from the source packages. I understand, that there is at least two ways: 1. Use the pentium-builder package and apt-get -b source and inst