Re: [gentoo-dev] "Distro Day (Measuring the benefits of the Gentoo approach)"

["Philippe Lafoucrière" <lafou@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 16:20, Philippe Lafoucrière wrote:
> > Proper testing would have yielded different results.  Also, there is no
> > way to duplicate the results since there is zero information on the
> > setup.  In any scientific circle, this data would IMMEDIATELY be thrown
> > out since it cannot be reproduced.  They also had no "control" group. 
> > It would also have been nice to have seen them test Gentoo (optimized)
> > against Gentoo (non-optimized).  Testing should have also been done on
> > the SAME machine.  Not "identical" machines, but the exact same one. 
> > The reason for this is there is the possibility that hardware could be
> > causing a discrepancy in the results.
> > 
> > The "Gentoo Approach" also is not limited to simply optimization, but
> > also to the customization and control over your system that a Gentoo
> > user gets.
> > 
> > I have found that most Gentoo converts don't even bother to use much
> > optimization, but rather enjoy the ease of use and control much more.

btw, it seems that they didn't use prelink with gentoo, when it's used by default on mdk :(



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