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Originally posted by stabu
By rights and common (very common) logic, as a source based distribution, Gentoo should have a very clear speed advantage over any binary distro.
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Only if you assume that optimising for processor Y will make it much faster than optimising for its ancestor processor X. But why make that assumption? In my experience, optimising for athlon-xp instead of i486 gives only moderate performance improvements in processor-intensive apps (e.g. lame) where you might naively think that optimisation would be worth while.
