[plug] Gentoo vs Debian

[Jan Hurst]

> Interesting. I've found that rebuilding the kernel, glibc, 
> and XFree86 
> with optimisations specific to my CPU has given the system a 
> significant 
>   boost. Far from massive, but definitely noticeable - 
> especially in 3D 
> performance. A kernel rebuild is pretty important for 
> performance, and 
> the other two have lesser but definite effects.

so... i can install a source package for say glibc or xfree and compile
it relatively simply within debian?

after all.. the main things i care about are only a handful of packages,
of which compiling from source wouldnt be much worse off than gentoo ;)

-jan