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From: John Myers <electronerd@electronerdia.net>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing performance
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:38:09 -0800
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On Thursday 15 December 2005 04:48, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if there are any sane ways to optimize the performance
> of a Gentoo system.
> Overoptimization (the well known "-O9 -fomgomg" CFLAGS etc.) tends to
> make things unstable, which is of course not what we want. The "easy"
> way out would be buying faster hardware, but that is usually not an
> option ;-)
>
> So ... what can be done to get the stable maximum out of your hardware?
This should be obvious, but don't USE=3Ddebug globally. Last time I did tha=
t, it=20
made my Athlon64 3400+ with 1G of RAM feel like the 300MHz PII with 192M of=
=20
RAM I have.
=2D-=20
#=20
# electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia
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