Athlon Incompatible Packages

[Nils O. Selåsdal]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 07:00, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> > Seems to me that this is not a bug, but an intentional decision.  Either
> > way, outside of the fact that any efficiencies you got from the recompile
> > would probably never make up the number of CPU cycles required for the
> > build, 
> 
> Why do gentoo users make such a huge deal out of this?
Do they have any _real_ benchmark telling the diffrence ?

Note that comparing say FC1 directly with an optimized Gentoo
is not a real benchmark, its probably not the same kernel with
the same features. Diffrent version of lots-of-things.

It's also interresting to find where the diffrence is.
e.g. Gentoo have some kernel features enabled which is what
makes the diffrence, you cannot say optimizing everything is
what made Evolution a bit quicker.
Or comparing a grep that's dog slow cause the user local is UTF-8
vs a locale of C..

Also beware of the placebo effect. Tell a user that this'n'that is much
better/faster, and he thinks so.

-- 
Nils Olav Selåsdal
System Engineer
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