4 ms·
The irony is that I started recompiling the kernel because it wouldn't detect a SCSI card unless parameters were passed to the kernel ... then I learned how lon
by II2II 1y ago
The irony is that I started recompiling the kernel because it wouldn't detect a SCSI card unless parameters were passed to the kernel ... then I learned how long autoprobing was taking for hardware that I didn't even have!
Did Gentoo provide much of a performance bump back then? I never really bothered with it since I was stuck with a 486 for the longest time, and by the time I did upgrade distributions were starting to offer "i586" builds (or something to that effect).
- bombcar 1y agoThe real performance gains were just about the -i386 to pentium jump; a bunch of distros only shipped the most compatible code and didn’t use the newer instructions. I always found that optimizing for size and using the exact march/mcpu worked nicely. But the biggest part I liked was being able to turn off features I didn’t need (like mpg123 in a headless server NOT pulling in X).