Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:44:02 -0700 From: Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'make world' not so common Message-ID: <20020429174410.73BFF37B417@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20020429144430.GA19741@lublin.t1.pl> References: <20020429144430.GA19741@lublin.t1.pl>
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On Monday 29 April 2002 07:44 am, Micha³ Pasternak wrote: > what advantages (and disadvantages) does recompilation (so common thing in > *BSD world) has over binary packages (deb/rpm, for example) ? I have a fast machine, so it doesn't take that long to rebuild everything. If make buildworld took all night, I probably wouldn't do it. Same for ports. The big advantage for me is that I get to optimize my software for my machine. By default, all of the packages are built for generic i386 computers. But I am running a P4 at work and an Athlon at home. By using optimization in my make.conf, I end up with about a 15% speed improvement. You can't use optimization for the kernel, but you can for the rest of userland. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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