Gentoo performance benchmarked

[Rajinder Yadav]

Jason Carson wrote:
> I know there was a fairly long thread about Gentoo a week or so ago. I
> came across this link (http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7574/1) and thought it
> would make an interesting follow up. Linux Magazine has benchmarked three
> different GCC optimizations on Gentoo and compared the results with
> Ubuntu. The conclusion...
> 
> "Gentoo did out-perform Ubuntu in almost every test, and sometimes by a
> fair margin. It does appear that optimizing for a specific CPU can yield a
> decent performance increase...The question is whether the amount of time
> it takes is worth the benefit, and that’s a personal choice."

I gave up on Slackware Linux because I didn't want to tinker around with my 
Linux box, I want to use my Linux box as a tool to get other things done. I 
would think many more are in this camp. I perceive Gentoo far more of an 
annoyance than Slackware, but I might be wrong. I would also think far more 
people care about easy of use Vs customized performance boost.

Personally I love Ubuntu and Debian because it makes my Linux life simple and 
easy. There have been a few things I've built from source, but for the most part 
I don't usually need to build from source.

If you start thinking in terms of cost/value, and what your time is really 
worth, then the choice is obvious, go with Ubuntu or Debain.

> 
> I've been using Gentoo for several years now. I was initially drawn to it
> because I thought it would outperform other distributions but for what I
> use it for the optimizations make little, probably not even noticeable,
> differences but I stuck with Gentoo because I like Portage (The package
> management system).
> 
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