On 2013-03-14, Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2013-03-14, Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to
>>> compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared
>>> to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such?
>> I just did a test, and they're all the same.
>>
>> CDs/DVDS of various distros dropped from a height of 1m all hit the
>> floor simultaneously
>> [...]
>> The point being, you're going to have to define "speed".
> OK. It appears not very many can figure out what I asked for. So,
> let me spell it out for those who are challenged. LOL ;-) Read some
> humor into that OK.
>
> Install a OS. Run tests on a set of programs and record the time it
> takes to complete a certain task. More tasks the better.
The results are going to vary depending on what task(s) are chosen.
If app/library/compiler versions are the same, all of the results I've
read about show you're not going to see a noticable difference. You
might be able to _measure_ a difference, but it's not something you'll
ever notice.
IOW, if you spend a few days tweaking CFLAGS, you might be able to
increase the number of FFTs per second you can run by a few percent
when compared to an off-the-shelf Ubuntu, RedHat, or Scientific Linux
install. But, if that's what you care about, then using a better
library/algorithm or better hardware is what you do.
The advantage of Gentoo is ease of administration, ease of
customization, ease of getting non default/mainstream things installed
and working right.
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