Linux fat/bloated

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 11:55:07PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   My personal experience...
> 
>   - an old "breakout-style" video game called "Xboing"
> 
>   - ran OK on my old 1999 Dell (450 mhz PIII, 128 megs ram) under Debian
> 
>   - speed level 1 was a bit slow, and I could handle up to speed level 3
> 
>   - under Gentoo, with optimizations, Xboing runs so fast that you have
>     to hack the source and insert a massive delay loop, in order to make
>     it playable at the "slowest" speed.
> 
>   The worst part is that on older machines, which benefit the most from
> using every last optimization, compiling takes the longest.  Gentoo no
> longer uses a "Stage 1" or "stage 2" install.  Every install is what
> used to be known as "stage 3".  You can always run things overnight.  A
> worst-case scenario, a 400 mhz PII, with 128 megs of ram, took approx 8
> hours to get from a basic text-console-only install to installing Gimp.
> That includes X (and supporting libraries, and TWM, and Gimp (and
> supporting libraries).

Makes me wonder if the source code was the same version, and whether you
may have configured debian to use vesa and gentoo to use native x
drivers for the system.

Both are much more plausible than optimizations.

Len Sorensen
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