[plug] Yoper 'speed up tricks'

[Richard Meyer]

On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 17:30 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> On 7/3/05, Dion <tenzero at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > I found a message in the archives where Senectus made a comment about
> > how the Yoper distro uses some
> > shortcuts and cheats to make the distro feel very slick. That's not a
> > direct quote, but you get the idea.
> > 
> > I was wondering what these tricks are and how they break some things
> > like games and wine and others.
> > Just curious seeing as how I am using that distro and what I should be
> > aware of if anything.
> > 
> In relation to Yoper specifically, "pre-linking" and the "scheduling"
> hacks they've played with are not brilliant for use with cedega. There
> was at least one other but I can't remember what that was.. It was a
> while ago.
> 
> Cedega (and the 2.6 kernel)  has made some decent improvements since I
> Made those comments.. they may be no longer relevant.. I wouldn't
> know.. I dumped Yoper for Ubuntu months ago, never looked back :-D
> 
Was just reading that using "-fvisibility=hidden" flag when compiling
apps cuts down loading times - just how much, they didn't say.

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Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>