[plug] Gentoo vs [insert ur fav distro here]

[John Knight]

Yes, there would be a big speed increase, especially within KDE etc. The 
main area of speed increase that you're after though is areas like MPlayer, 
compiled frmo source, MPlayer is grooooovy. :-)

Make lunch, not war.

>one of the "selling points" of gentoo is that by compiling (and
>optimising) packages a large speed increase is gained. i dont know how
>accurate this is but i am interested in getting some opinions. does
>debian have 686 (P4)optimised binary packages? will i notice a speed
>difference? are the gentoo claims of massive performance increases truth
>or myth? (gentoo certainly seems faster than any other distro ive
>used... but that is hardly from any real testing ;)
>
>any comments or suggestions would be muchly appreciated.
>
>-jan
>

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