I can tell a difference. I have also done timing tests doing forensic work and Gentoo seems to win in the area of dd imaging and md5 hashing. Thanks, Ernie Baca Phoenix, Arizona ebaca@linux-forensics.com www.linux-forensics.com >From: James Mabry >Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >Subject: Re: C Libraries >Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 18:48:41 -0700 > >Austin Godber wrote: > >>Are there any benchmark comparisons that show that you really gain >>anything by having everything compiled for your architecture? Or is it >>really just a warm fuzzy? > >Heh no you can definitely tell a difference. Everything is very "zippy" :). >-- >Slackware Linux - >Find out about the 4S rule. >www.slackware-advocacy.org/whyuse.html > >Then try it out for yourself. >www.slackware.org > >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail