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?
