Might as well do something with all those wasted cpu cycles ..., ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Cheetham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "canterbury linux users group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:22 PM Subject: Re: WANTED: Distro recommendation
> On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 15:57, Matthew Gregan wrote: > > The performance difference between GCC optimising for i386 and i586 is > > unlikely to be noticable for most tasks. > > Indeed, and within the life-time of a specific version of a command, > what is the likely comparison between the full configure/compile cycle, > and the number of executions * optimisation speedup? > > I suspect that a frequently-updating compile-from-source gentoo user is > spending more CPU time per application than is healthy ... > > Especially with distributed.net, seti, protein folding, and other worthy > causes clamouring for your CPU cycles ... I didnt relise they were compulsary with the basic Gentoo install ;p > > -jim > > > Dale.
