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Re: Slackwhere or maybe Debian



On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 04:16:37PM +0200, Alex Shnitman wrote:
> Those programs which you want to compile with non-standard options
> (like your PHP example with Hebrew charset support), you'll have to
> compile in any case. The rest of the software which you don't need
> special compilation options for, you can install from binary packages --
> I don't think there's any advantage whatsoever in compiling it from
> source.

I'd love to get some king of a Debian proxy which'll recompile all
packages for the i586 platform. They say it gives quite a speed boost
to Mandrake, and this really makes sense, knowing that faster CPUs with
double the MHz won't give you double the speed, unless your compiler
uses the optimizations provided by the CPU.

(So recompiling may indeed bring some benefit)

-- 
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov

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