Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

[Joost Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org>]

On Wednesday 30 July 2014 20:26:48 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 30/07/2014 20:02, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > This 'de-bloat' crap - who came up with that? People who use it all the
> > times seldomly realize that the 'small and unbloated' software they use
> > is in a lot of cases neither small, nor not bloated.
> 
> Usually it comes from the same headspace that ricing comes from. Humans
> are all about perception, very very very few of them can actually look
> at things in an unbiased way. So it goes like this:
> 
> User hates Gnome. [opinion]
> User decides that because Gnome integrates so many things vertically
> then Gnome must necessarily be bloated. [invalid conclusion not backed
> up by facts]
> User decides to try Razor|LXDE|Enlightenment|*box|whatever [valid activity]
> User likes <whatever> [opinion]
> User concludes that <whatever> is therefore "better" than Gnome
> [erronously equate specific opinion with fact for the general case]
> Therefore <whatever> is not bloated and Gnome is, to satisfy wrong
> conclusion at #2 [I can't even begin to think what fallacy this is]
> 
> 
> Not much opinion in any of that.
> We humans are mostly hard-wired to react based on past experience and
> data blindly accepted as fact in the past. 9 times out of 10 this helps
> you leap out of the way of the tiger seeking to have you for lunch. You
> got this ability from dad's genes and it must be raising the odds for
> you and he otherwise he wouldn't have survived long enough to sire you.
> If you stop to think about the tiger, he is for sure going to have a
> nice lunch. So we humans that survived did so by jumping to conclusions
> and having them work out OK on average. This new-fangled idea of
> actually thinking about things all the way through is a very new idea,
> and most of the species hasn't gotten the hang of it yet.

This does still seem to be a valid survival requirement for a large part of 
the worlds population though, including where you are.
For people living in a "so-called" civilized world, tigers are only found 
inside places commonly called a "zoo" :)

> So now you know why ricers swear blind that -pipe in CFLAGS "*doubles*
> the running speed, dude!"

It does!
I enabled -pipe in my CFLAGS and all the software was running a lot faster on 
my new machine compared to my old one ;)

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Joost