Recompilation of SRPMS.

[Ted Kaczmarek]

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?