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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Subject: Re: any use to build from source?
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Parv <parv@pair.com> wrote:
> in message <40D33478.3060705@vo.lu>,
> wrote Patrick Useldinger thusly...
> >
> > (Building from source) allows you to compile with the compiler
> > options you want, you are able to optimize the binaries for your
> > CPU, but: does it really matter? Are the speed improvements really
> > visible?
> 
> I haven't run any benchmarks related to speed for use of software on
> a personal, non-server computer.

http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/source.php

It's not comprehensive, and I haven't had an opportunity to do the additional
tests I wanted to do, but it is _some_ testing ...

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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