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

If your system is so overloaded that the performance differences coming
from running a more highly optimized version of "mount" is necessary in
order for it not to fall down into a steaming cauldron of molten
silicon, then running GCC to recompile things, which is considerably
MORE expensive than running them, would clearly push you over into
"meltdown mode."

I would see value in recompiling GLIBC with customized options.  I would
see value in recompiling XFree86 in a "tuned" manner, and perhaps Emacs,
if you're doing a lot of that.

If Nat Friedman's "GNU Rope" project (akin to Sun's "cords" tool
<http://www.advogato.org/article/660.html>) had continued, that might be
of merit.  You might get value out of running "strip" on all of your
binaries; that's cheap, and would have some impact.

But recompiling everything on the system?  Total fool's errand,
particularly if the point is to do so with GCC, which is _not_ one of
the world's fastest C compilers.  

And if you're running "near to capacity," the sheer cost of running GCC
makes it a definite "fool's errand."
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