[Gllug] [OT] Appreciation

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:20:39PM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Juergen Schinker wrote:
> >the Gentoo Penguin is the fastest
> >  
> 
> Yes, because spending hours upon hours "optimising" stuff that spends 
> 99.9% of its time waiting for user input is a really worthwhile venture.

<flamebait>Gentoo just diverts resources from useful open source 
development tasks</flamebait>

Just imagine if all the effort people put into Gentoo & extracting that
0.1% of extra speed from a custom compiled app, actually instead went 
into improving the dumb code algorithms. You might see 10, 50, 90% speedups
without any need to turn on funky compile flags. Speedups which would
benefit everyone forever more...

Dan.
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