On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:35:34 am Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates > > or postulates. :') > > No need. Been done. Question answered long ago. You are beating a dead > horse. We already know *exactly* what difference it makes - precious > little. > > You want a machine that performs better? Stick in a disk drive with more > cache memory. Instant improvement that will dwarf any change you could > ever make with the compiler. Ever wondered why Ubuntu distributes 386 > generic code? Because it makes no discernible difference whatsoever. > > But if you wanna go ahead and prove to yourself something that the > toolchain world has know for like forever, then go ahead, don't let me > stop you <shrug> > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Are the numbers posted somewhere I can get to? It'd be good reading. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
