Re: Optimizing libc6 et al...

2001-06-03 Thread Colin Watson
"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyway, my question is has anyone replaced system libraries using >apt-get -b source? > >Seems like this would be the most bang for the buck as it were, but >also the greatest risk. At one stage there were optimized libc6 packages available (libc6-i

Optimizing libc6 et al...

2001-06-03 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, after reading some recent posts about apt-get -b source and pentium-builder, I'm toying with the idea of optimizing the hell out of my ppro system. Brief testing of a rebuild of the sysutils package got me a 6% decrease in the time to run memtest (I picked this because it takes a non-trivial