On 12 Dec 2002, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:09, John wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Tesla 13 wrote: > > > > > > I would like to adapt a Redhat 8.0 system to Pentium 4. The binaries, data, > > > files and everything will be used, run and compiled on P4. I have no issue > > > with compatability and I do not need anything to run on a 386, Pentium or > > > PIII -- only P4. > > > > What on earth do you hope to gain? It will takes days, maybe weeks on a > > single machine. > > You're right, but he's sort of got a point too. > > It would be nice to have a document saying "such and such are the best > know practices to optimize the hell out of the programs compiled with > gcc-3.2, depending on the CPUs and on the specific workloads and on the > phases of the Moon, etc." ;-) It's going to take a lot to regain even the time spent rebuilding Perl which is probably the biggest CPU hog I use. Mind you, a lot can easily be gained if you have a lot of computers. _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
