On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:28:01 am Dale wrote: > 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 > > :-) :-)
Thanks for the offer. I'm almost finished the re-compiling stuff however. Why not post the script anyways? Someone else may be doing the same thing. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [email protected] mailing list
