Re: GENTOO
  By: Angus McLeod to Ibanez on Sun Mar 16 2008 07:55 pm

 >  > You compile Gentoo packages from source with flags for your specific
 >  > architecture. Some binary distros set flags pretty far back to support a 
 >  > array of older archs -- for example, Slackware still compiles for i486 la
 >  > checked.
 > 
 > It would be foolish to suggest that Gentoo performs better because the 
 > packages are compiled for the platform.  I can assure you, Slackware comes 
 > with a compiler too.

If I pulled my Gentoo drive from my Core2 Quad based system and you even tried
to run it on a Pentium 4, it would not work. I've set the flag to -march flag
to exactly my CPU. 

Packages compiled with -march=athlon will most likely fail to run on a K6 cpu.
I can dig out of the Gentoo docs where it states this if you wish.

And you'd have to recompile the ENTIRE slackware distro to get the same effect.
You're entire Gentoo system is compiled from those flags.



- Ibanez

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