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[Joseph Kubik]

If all you are running is 'ifconfig' no, no difference.
If you are running near to capacity though, yes then it matters.
-Joseph-


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:59:28 -0500, Tim Goodaire <tgoodaire-zC6tqtfhjqE at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I don't think it's compiling from source that he has a problem with.
> It's the idea that there is some kind of net gain in having your
> processor spending much of its time compiling all of your programs from
> source because they'll be faster and "optimized".
> 
> If your system is so fast that you can spare all of those cpu cycles,
> are you really going to notice a big difference with your optimized
> "ifconfig" or "mount"  or whatever commands?
> 
> Tim
> 
> Lloyd D Budd wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:22:41 -0500, Lennart Sorensen
> ><lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:22:34PM -0500, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>most distros support the 'corefonts' package, which should install
> >>>Trebuchet.
> >>>
> >>><http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/>
> >>>
> >>> Stewart
> >>>(that's "emerge corefonts" for all right-thinking folks ;-) )
> >>>
> >>>
> >>It is "right thinking" to waste time compiling code using the same
> >>compiler to generate the same binaries as someone else could have
> >>already done for you?
> >>
> >>Yeah right.
> >>
> >>I guess some people can't think of more productive ways to use their
> >>amazingly fast CPUs.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I take it you do not like Gentoo or otherwise building from source ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> 
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