On Thursday 22 July 2010 00:18:05 Bill Longman wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 12:39 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 July 2010 17:49:46 Bill Longman wrote:
> >> And to play devil's advocate, I'll chime in with my experience. The 4.4
> >> GCC, at least on AMD CPUs, creates noticeably faster code. I recompiled
> >> all my packages after I upgraded to 4.4 and it was a noticeable
> >> difference.
> >>
> >> But, to make perfectly clear what Alan and Dale have stated previously,
> >> it is not a requirement to recompile anything. The binaries that are
> >> created still call the same system calls as they did before. The kernel
> >> still publishes them in the same locations. And to prove to yourself
> >> this is true, grab a statically linked binary, compiled for a stock
> >> standard i686, and run it on your machine.
> >
> > I'd love to be able to experience the speedups of gcc-4.4 and by rights I
> > should be able to - my last "rip gentoo apart and put it back together
> > again" stunt needed an emerge -e world to fix it all.
> >
> > But, and this is the bit that makes me cry, the slowdown from KDE-4.4.5
> > has obliterated all that advantage several times over.....
> >
> > raster *really* needs to hurrry up now and release e17
>
> Might I suggest a small hardware upgrade:
>
> http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6100/SR56x0/H8QGi-F.cfm
Might I submit that that will be a tad difficult to squeez into this:
# dmidecode | grep -B3 "Product Name"
Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: XPS M1530
:-)
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