Responding to all, sorry [user] control compiler optimizations (I run on P4 Xeon) it was the first distro I found whose kernels didn't mess up the Xeon CPU throttling stuff and randomly start running at 10% speed glutton for pain (I hate worrying about all those ewarns and config files for things I never even knew I had, let alone how they were configured)
-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list