Another fundamental tip

Lubos Lunak kde-optimize@mail.kde.org
Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:47:19 +0100


On Sunday 19 of January 2003 02:52, Steve Hutton wrote:
> The KDE performance tips page actually suggests
> that people should upgrade their hardware to
> speed up KDE

 That one was actually meant rather ironically.

>, but it doesn't mention anything
> about compilers.
>
> Certainly there is room to gain by compiling
> KDE using gcc 3.2 and its cpu specific optimizations,
> no?  Can this be added to the tips page?
> http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/download/tips.html

 No, I'd rather not. The page is meant for users, and I'm not going to suggest 
them to completely screw up their system by using (still not officially 
stable) prelink or changing gcc version.

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Lubos Lunak
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