[Gllug] Issues with Hotplug && Auto-mounting

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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Martin A. Brooks spake:
> Futhermore stuff like Firefox can take literally _hours_ to compile,
> the microsecond of processor time you gain by compiling for, say, i686
> when your distro ships an i386 binary, is instantly and unrecoverably
> wiped out by the time spent watching GCC do its thing.

Actually, compiling *GCC* for the right processor, and especially compiling
it with profile feedback enabled, can speed up that compilation by 5--10%.
(But I guess as a CPU-bound app GCC is unusual.)

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