I'd recompile things like Video/Audio applications that REQUIRE performance. Perhaps X as well. Other than that ... nope. On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:18, jackzheng2002@xxxxxxxx wrote: > ----- åæ ----- > From: Ted Kaczmarek > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Recompilation of SRPMS. > Sent: Sun Nov 16 09:02:49 CST 2003 > > hehe, that's right > > > Very few things benefit from this, but some do. > > Generally for most, the time you spend building the rpms will far exceed > > the cpu time you will save :-) > > > > Ted > > > > > > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 12:55, Konrad Kosmowski wrote: > > > Does it make sense to recompile some packages for diffrent architecture? > > > I'am running a Duron processor and I see Fedoras packages are compiled > > > for i386 so I've grabbed some SRPMS and started recompiling it with > > > --target=athlon. I've begun with XFree86 compiled it for athlon and > > > installed it. I think every X app is now a little zippier but that may > > > be placebo effect ;-). So does it make sense to recompile everything > > > else? I don't mean small apps that I use rarely, rather big ones that i > > > use often (fe. Mozilla, OpenOffice) - will the recompilation for athlon > > > increase speed? > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Kevin Francis <http://denial.loose-screws.com/>
