Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoHe wasn't ready for that distrolemmy.caimagemessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squaregi1242@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-28 months agoI used Gentoo for 3y. in hindsight I wasted so many CPU cycles just because I thought --march=native would make things faster. nope. you know what made things faster? switching to arch 😂
minus-squareIllecors@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoI did jump onto Gentoo ship chasing performance, but stayed because of USE flags.
minus-squareatmur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoWhen CPUs were a lot slower you could genuinely get noticeable performance improvements by compiling packages yourself, but nowadays the overhead from running pre-compiled binaries is negligible. Hell, even Gentoo optionally offers binary packages now.
I used Gentoo for 3y. in hindsight I wasted so many CPU cycles just because I thought --march=native would make things faster.
nope.
you know what made things faster? switching to arch 😂
I did jump onto Gentoo ship chasing performance, but stayed because of USE flags.
When CPUs were a lot slower you could genuinely get noticeable performance improvements by compiling packages yourself, but nowadays the overhead from running pre-compiled binaries is negligible.
Hell, even Gentoo optionally offers binary packages now.