Once upon a time, Preston <grammaton_cleric@xxxxxxx> said: > I have been thinking about doing the same (at least, recompile kde, qt, > postgres). Gentoo users insists that recompiling gives a big perfomance > boost. Have them give you hard numbers in an "apples to apples" comparison (i.e. take a system, install it with i386 code, run test, then re-install it with i686 code and run the same test). > A friend made a test comparing Fedora against Whitebox and get amazing > results running sql queries agains Postgres. That isn't a valid comparison; Fedora and Whitebox (i.e. RHEL) are not the same. The kernels and libraries are different, and so is the build of PostgreSQL. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
