Rogerio Brito wrote: > > First of all, I must say that I'm enjoying this discussion a > lot and that although I never used this pentium-builder thing, > I think that it's pretty slick. > > I guess that recompiling every package is not worth the > trouble, but recompiling multimedia and CPU intensive ones may > be a major gain (say, MPEG players and such). Yes,I was thinking more like X ,KDE ,Gnome and multimedia so I guess the few things left won't take that much time.:-).
> BTW, you can use -O6 for your programs. If I remember > correctly, it will fallback to whatever is the highest mode of > optimization (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong -- I > read this a long time ago and didn't find it listed in the > current documentation now; the funny thing is that it's not > mentioned in the current potato manpage). > > I also don't know if -O6 does the same thing as -O9. > > []s, Roger... I've read something on a archive of a gcc mailing list but apparently it doesn't relate to the gcc we use-don't remember the link ,I researched this for a few hours.I got stuck at the debian/rules when I decided to ask for help.
