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Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] Benefits of source distro(Gentoo)somewhatelusive :-)
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- Subject: Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] Benefits of source distro(Gentoo)somewhatelusive :-)
- From: Stuart Guthrie <slug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 09:19:44 +1000
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Without significant numbers of the OS community dedicated to squeezing
performance, via whatever obscure optimisations are available, we would
all be a lot worse off. Much of this work filters back into the general
releases and therefore benefits us all. It is the people with this focus
that enable this to happen.
At various sites, the need for optimisation does rear it's head and to
say 'throw more hardware at it' is sometimes (not always) to be fiscally
and environmentally irresponsible and somewhat lazy.
Ben, if you are into linux optimisations all power to you. In fact it
would make an interesting talk at slug IMHO.
Stu