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

[William Kenworthy]

Have not heard this before: do you have a reference for it?  gcc3.x was
generally considered noticeably faster than 2.95 where it counts when
introduced, with 3.2 being much stabler and less troublesome, but I have
seen nothing about being sower.

BillK


On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 07:52, James Devenish wrote:
> 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).
> 
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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>