Roger Merchberger wrote: > Rumor has it that Justin The Cynical may have mentioned these words: > >> Building from source isn't going to give much of a performance boost, > > You've obviously never owned a Crusoe processor-based computer, have you? > ;-) Lemme tell ya, compiling for the architecture -- especially when it's a > *wonky* architecture -- can give you some serious performance gains.[1]
Nope, I've not. However, I did qualify that statement with a 'most people'. :-) > My 933Mhz Crusoe laptop benchmarked equivalent to about a 650-700MHz x86 > processor - except in LFS, where it benchmarked about 1.3GHz! And that is impressive. I'm guessing that compiling for the chip bypassed most, if not all, of the x86 emulation layer(s). I've yet to see any real improvements on the 'mainstream' x86 chips for most usages. Transcoding video or encoding audio files, that would probably show some nice gains, but for general use (word processing, web browsing, etc) it would be minimal if any. Besides, the point of LFS is to build the system Your Way(tm). Any speed increases due to the binaries being optimized for the CPU and chipset are just icing on the cake IMO. Justin "Down not across" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
