On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:52:15PM +0000, Jonathan Andrews wrote: > > Pointing out the obvious why doesn't somebody test core 3 against a > fully source built distro like Gentoo and see if the performance gains > are real - thats not just benchmark, but perceived responsiveness. If Even better, test un unoptimized Gentoo against an optimized one. That way, you'll have identical versions of tested software. Emmanuel