Jerry McBride wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: >> >>> Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a >>> tad bit faster? >>> >> See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road. >> >> If you did get it all to work right, and suffered through the emerge -e >> world required, your computer would in fact run a tiny tad faster, >> where tad is defined is "a teensy weensy little bit, so small you can >> hardly see it with a magnifying glass" >> >> Not worth the effort IMHO. Of course, there are ricers out there that >> will swear by it and declare that their machine runs much faster, but >> very few if any of them ever produce some actual numbers... >> >> > > Thanks for the post. > > I actually started working on this project late last night... My target test > machine is an "getting old" Compaq R3000 with a 3ghz P4. What I'm going to do > is just what you suggested. > > First I'm going to finish freshening the laptop. This is my > daily "hack-n-slash" computer, so no worries clobbering it. I'm near the end > of finishing an "emerge -e world" that was preceded with two rounds > of "emerge -e system" > > Next step is some exhaustive bench marking. All suggestions welcomed. > > Then once completed, I'' make the change to chost from i686 to pentium4, > following the docs on the net. Once done and smoothed out... another > freshening as mentioned above, followed up with identical runs of what ever > benchmarks I ran before... > > Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates or > postulates. :') > > Cheers. > > >
There is a script that will take care of the emerge and you only have to do it once. It's on the forums but I still have a copy if you want me to email it to you. Dale :-) :-) -- [email protected] mailing list
