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

[James Devenish]

In message <1056030995.4463.51.camel at rattus.Localdomain>
on Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:56:35PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> I wouldnt call gentoo having a "great" speed increase over Mandrake
[...]
> but it is there.
[...]
> bleeding edgness - one system started out as gcc2.95, is now gcc3.2
> including latest stable glibc etc.  Generally good, but with a compile
> time of 5-6 days for open office

Note: gcc 3.2.x == slow (not sure if this applies to your architecture,
but unless gcc 3.3 has some magic revisions, I expect it will also be
generally slow).