linuxcaffe; distros and desktops

[Noah John Gellner]

I do think that code has gotten less efficient. That said, I was happy
to wake up this morning and test out my compiled from scratch system
out. Very snappy. Very nice. KDE is the only thing left to compile. It
seems to be more sensitive to the optimizations that I have wrought. In
the end I expect to triumph though.

On 11:16 Sun 31 Oct     , Francois Ouellette wrote:
> I guess the best optimization is to start with good source code and
> consistent programming practices! Remember decision tables? Probably not,
> they don't teach those things anymore... But many years ago when memory
> was outrageously expensive and processor speeds were a fraction of what we
> get today, every bit (literally) of optimization had its value in a
> program.
> 
> You can find interesting optimization articles on the AMD web site, go to
> the "Technical Documentation" section and select a processor, such as the
> Athlon. The general optimization examples can apply to any x86 processor.
> 
>  François Ouellette
> <fouellet-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 03:20:11PM -0400, Noah John Gellner wrote:
> >> I have been wondering about the differences between -O2 and -O3. I
> >> typically use -O2, but I am starting to experiment about -O3. For a P4
> >> 2.4 w/ 684M of RAM, should -O3 be faster?
> >
> > -O3 is documented as turning on some optimizations that _will_ break
> > certain code.  Most code will work fine, some code will not work
> > correctly, or perhaps even at all.  Also for most code, don't expect a
> > measureable difference.
> >
> > Lennart Sorensen
> 
> --
> The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml
> 

-- 
Even Buddha punished evil - "Master Killer"
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml