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Probably one of the biggest Bang for your Buck (on Linux) would be to recompile your libc and OpenSSL with -march=native. Then at least all software that depen

Probably one of the biggest Bang for your Buck (on Linux) would be to recompile your libc and OpenSSL with -march=native. Then at least all software that depends on those libs (probably the majority) would get some benefit from your local processors extensions.

Sesse__ 3y ago
glibc and OpenSSL both have runtime detection of CPU features to switch between hand-coded versions of hot functions, so those two are probably the packages that will get the _least_ benefit from a recompilation.
trelane 3y ago
Or you can use Gentoo.