Hello Dave, > Redhat for example has a very optimal tool chain which they use for > their Enterprise product line and it is not available to other > distributions (or rebuilds) and thus their resulting binaries and > libraries have been more performant then other Linux distributions we > have tested. This reminds me of a thread on fedora-devel in April this year: "Intel's Clear Linux optimizations" https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/UXTL3INISMOIVYI4JOYVHCEOFLMFC7CO That was about compiling the kernel specifically for Intel CPUs only. not sure if that is related to this topic at all, Timotheus
