Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoHe wasn't ready for that distrolemmy.caimagemessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
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minus-squaregi1242@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 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-squareatmur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 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 😂
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.