Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] Benefits of source distro(Gentoo)somewhatelusive :-)

[BENJAMIN JOHN DE LUCA <ben.deluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think jeff at least wasnt following my argument (and im not going to say that wasnt entirely my fault) I was specificaly refering to the optimisation of systems that do either.

1. rendering
2. realtime

I will agree that the benifits from compiler optimisations are going to be small for a mail server and largely useless.

However I am sure that I replied that I was interested in optimisations in regards to the points I listed above. 


----- Original Message -----
From: Stuart Guthrie <slug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 9:19 am
Subject: Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] Benefits of source	distro(Gentoo)somewhatelusive :-)

> 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
> 
> 
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