Re: gEDA-user: On the nitty-gritty of user-experienced problems

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 14, 2005, at 6:52 PM, Igor Izyumin wrote:
> > Binary packages run slower because are not optimized for the 
> > particular
> > processor. I have notices about 2 times speedup between compiled GCC
> > and binary GCC. I don't want to buy 3.6GHz system. I'll stick with
> > my 1.8GHz one.
> The difference is not perceptible, except in multimedia-intensive 
> applications.  I am willing to bet that the reason your compiled GCC 
> is faster is simply because it's a different version.

  The difference most certainly *is* perceptible.

> > Programs should be written portably. They should work regardless of
> > any distros.
> In an ideal world, programs would just work.  In reality, there is no 
> way every distribution can be reliably supported -- they are far too 
> different.  The best idea is to use something like the Linux Standards 
> Base.  If your distribution is LSB-compliant, it should run 
> LSB-compliant programs without any issues.  Making programs run only 
> on LSB-compliant distros will encourage non-compliant ones to 
> standardize, which is a good thing.

  I think it's high time we tell the world's pimply-faced Linux 
developer about this Linux Standards Base.  From the software floating 
around these days, it's painfully obvious to me that very few of them 
have ever heard of it.

         -Dave

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