On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:52:32PM -0500, Glen Wagley wrote: > Ok, so I'm thinkin about introducing my craptop to Gentoo. I haven't > installed Gentoo since 1.2 and that was on a machine with no critical > data or other OSs. Anyhow, I have about 4 gigs that I can put Gentoo > on. I think that should be enough. My real question is, how much of a > performance increase would I expect to gain by compiling everything > instead of getting one of the other stages with precompiled binaries? > Remember, the poor old craptop has a pIII 700 mhz and 192 mb of > RAM....What do yall think?
My main machine these days is a PII 400 laptop with 128 MB of RAM and it runs gentoo, compiled all the way from stage 1. If there was a semi-current i686 stage3 tarball I would say that's the way to go because they do choose good optimizations and almost all of system will get rebuilt within your first months of updating the laptop. But, the most recent release canidate with anything other than vanilla x86 optimizations was 1.4_rc2 and just about every precompiled package there has already been updated, so your real options are to compile from scratch (stage1) or use stage3 from 1.4_rc2 and then recompile everything. -- --------------------------------+----------------------------------- Byron Clark | http://www.byronandannie.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] | --------------------------------+----------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 0365 6979 6C3E BC0C 56C0 FB7F 12B3 75DD 042B EA68
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