RFC: Optimizing for 386

Nick Bargnesi nbargnesi at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 17:05:17 UTC 2005


On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:00:01 +0100, Emmanuel Seyman <seyman at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:52:15PM +0000, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
> >
> > Pointing out the obvious why doesn't somebody test core 3 against a
> > fully source built distro like Gentoo and see if the performance gains
> > are real - thats not just benchmark, but perceived responsiveness. If
> 
> Even better, test un unoptimized Gentoo against an optimized one.
> That way, you'll have identical versions of tested software.

That's the best suggestion.  In theory, I think optimized/unoptimized
builds of gentoo leading to a comparison would support the main
argument here.  I for one have built KDE from qt on up optimized
versus unoptimized with no noticeable gain in anything.

> 
> Emmanuel
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