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I remember that gentoo site. At one point I installed gentoo precisely because there was a seemingly huge difference in Pentium 3 code vs i386 that every other
by goalieca 6y ago
I remember that gentoo site. At one point I installed gentoo precisely because there was a seemingly huge difference in Pentium 3 code vs i386 that every other distro seemed to be tuned for. Also cutting out bloat seemed to relieve ram pressure and load times. I ditched it when the very first ubuntu release came out and it just worked and felt as fast. I then questioned my wasted hours doing miserable computer work that I took no joy in. I think I was running amd by then (possibly 64-bit?)
- wyc 6y agoI think what the site was making fun of is the idea that tuning perfectly to your machine gets you substantially more performance, which in my experience is generally untrue with respect to payoff for effort. I like flags to build certain tools without X support, not to squeeze a few new vector ops into the ASM.