On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:32:24 -0700, Russell Hanaghan wrote: >Can I gain any performance from building certain software on the >machine? Mostly, I guess low or more efficient resource usage. Kernel >included. Right now running SMP lowtatency kernel. I'm still if the >belief that a RT kernel would be better but obviously in the deb >world, not so many available. I can't speak for Mac, but for my PCs compiling on my machines didn't/doesn't make a noticeable difference to installing a package. Regarding the kernel, yes, linux-rt is useful, but for my AMD Athlon there's no noticeable difference when I compile it with or without CONFIG_MK8=y for Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user