On Tuesday 25 February 2003 05:01 pm, Joe Braddock wrote: > -------Original Message------- > From: flacycads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 02/25/03 05:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control? > > <snip> > Anyone who dual boots with windows on the same hardware knows that windows > > performance is noticably better than Linux, and that this is most likely > due > to the highly x86 optimized Intel compiler. Please... this just is not a fact. this is basicly WRONG in my personal experiance. M$ just plain sucks compared to Mandrake-Linux on at least _MY_ hardware, I don't claim to speak for "anyone who dual boots windows, and as long as I am included in your statement, neither do you.
> Given that, it's going to be hard to convince me that trying to optimize > Linux and gcc for newer cpus is not worth the trouble. However, I'll keep > an > open mind on the subject, and I'm certainly not an expert. > > Robert Crawford > <snip> > > Robert, > > I thought anything after Windows NT runs on Pentium and above (or K6 and > above if you use AMD). If that's the case, then it's not anymore optimized > than Mandrake, so any increased performance on a Windows box is not do to > optimization. not true, you need much more starting with win ME > > If you truly want to see what effect optimization may have for your system, > recompile the kernel and run some benchmarks (actually before and after). > Since everything else runs on top of the kernel, it recompiling it should > give the most bang for your buck. I can tell you, though, that on my > systems (K6-450 and Duron 1.3ghz), removing stuff that's not used in the > kernel has a bigger impact on performance than optimizing for the CPU > (maybe it has something to do with AMD vs Intel, I don't know, but the chip > optimization seemed to have little impact). > > Joeb
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