On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:00:01 +0100, Emmanuel Seyman <seyman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. That's the best suggestion. In theory, I think optimized/unoptimized builds of gentoo leading to a comparison would support the main argument here. I for one have built KDE from qt on up optimized versus unoptimized with no noticeable gain in anything. > > Emmanuel > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- Nick Bargnesi http://www.den-4.com Den 4 Software pub 1024D/E8BD2FD0 2004-12-02 Nick Bargnesi <nbargnesi@xxxxxxxxx> Key fingerprint = 6F9D 9404 63CD 2B04 DE7A 0F9D A1ED C1B0 E8BD 2FD0 sub 2048g/56C5D45B 2004-12-02 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda