[Nottingham] distro chance

[Simon Huggins]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:29:47PM +0100, Martin wrote:
> Optimised compiling might gain you up to a 10% performance boost in 
> general. Some computation type stuff might gain as much as a 200% 
> speedup. All highly variable.

Or you might hit the optimisation option that reduces performance.
cf http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/50924
and http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/50953

I think it's a really hard thing to get right and I'm not going to spend
my life trying :)

Simon.

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