Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

[kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net>]

On 11/28/2011 9:28 AM, James Wall wrote:
>> I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term
>> 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is
>> really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a more genteel origin
>> I simply cannot find using Google?
>>
>> - Mark
>
> Ricer is used to refer to someone who wants to have the system tweaked
> to the hardware it runs on that it is not like the generic binary
> distros like ubuntu that is compiled for the lowest common denominator
> like i386 or x86_64.
> hope this helps clarify the term,
> James Wall
>

	You're missing some history. First Mark is correct that the origin is 
from the derogatory term in the car world, ricer. While the term 
continues to be a derogatory term the racial part of it is generally 
ignored in the computer world because there isn't a made in the US vs 
Japan rivalry. Ricer continues to mean "spending inordinate amount of 
time and money for performance modifications that generally do very 
little for performance and a lot to reduce reliability while poorly 
understanding the system as a whole." At least that's my interpretation 
of the definition.

kashani