On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 18:36, Owen Stampflee wrote: > Dont bother. It takes a fully loaded G5 about 3 weeks to rebuild the > entire distro... and all you'll do with -O3 everywhere is well, cause > lots of nice random segfaults and sigills. >
Sun is now offering up to 10,000 cpu grids for a mere $1US a CPU/Hour, which might reduce it by a few seconds... > Oh yeah, GCC sucks at optimizations, so even if you got things working, > you might see a 1-2% difference with -O3... now if you were using IBM's > XL Compilers (which are $$$ and 64-bit only), you'll see much nicer > gains in the 30% area. as is said in the performance auto industry: Speed costs, how fast can you afford to go? > > Cheers, > Owen > sloopy. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
