Pentium 4

Michael Schwendt ms-nospam-0306 at arcor.de
Tue Feb 3 12:57:56 UTC 2004


On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 13:13:39 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> One of the main reasons Gentoo users claim for their system is the
> performance boost by optimized compilations for their platform. But if
> you look at the official Gentoo benchmark page - first official attempt
> to make the subjective user's impression of performance gains countable,
> other comparison charts are to be found using google - you will see that
> the most significant improvement comes from prelinking. That is my
> impression from the data on
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/performance.xml
> 
> See yourself. The other speed values are on a level where I suspect you
> will not feel any difference in general. Fedora uses prelinking.

There are Gentoo users who are honest enough to admit that they don't
see any noticeable performance increase compared with Fedora Core 1.
Some even think that FC1 feels "snappier", and they assume it's due to
NPTL and/or kernel patches.

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