On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:37:25AM +1200, Simon Hansman wrote:
> Well, if it's not compile optimizations then I don't know what it is. In both
> Mandrake and Gentoo I've got dma enabled on my harddrives, the same number of
> services are running, fam's enabled...Both I login using kdm - and I know
> Mandrake starts the X server early and starts other services in the
> background, but even if I wait 10 minutes and then login, Gentoo is still
> faster. You got to remember it's the whole system that has been optimized,
> not just KDE.
What versions of Gentoo and Mandrake are we even talking about? I
suspect the difference may be caused by something like ELF pre-linking
on the Gentoo box.
I realise the whole system has been "optimized", but what benchmarks do
you have to prove how much faster it is, other than subjective things
like "x and y start faster"?
Google doesn't turn much up, for me, in the way of Gentoo versus
whatever benchmarks. I think it might be time to get a copy of Gentoo
for myself and do some real benchmarks.
Cheers,
-mjg
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