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Simon Waters wrote: > Ben Goodger wrote: >> This should be built in. Anyone looking for a hacking assignment? >> apt-get build-install would be my favourite :) > > As Neil suggests, there is very little to be gained but more bugs. > > One has to use a consistent set of build tools (toolchain), or at least > a compatible toolchain, which usually restricts the versions of GCC you > can use and still build a working package. Not that GCC has many binary > incompatible upgrades, but it does happen. In the specific case of firefox, wouldn't such a toolchain also require all extensions and possibly themes used by that firefox to be rebuilt in the same toolchain - as most of these aren't Debian packages (or the current Debian package is behind the mozilla.org version), that's going to be a different toolchain? Just curious. > Unless stuff is CPU intensive, or do a lot of access to physical memory > that can be optimised by prefetching and isn't, I expect benefits to be > marginal. I suspect Firefox is normally limited by network latency, so > using your ISPs cache is probably the biggest win. DNS is already over > optimised to the point of giving incorrect results in both Firefox and > IE, but again using a big local cache like and ISPs name server is still > going to gain a little when visiting a new website. More bandwidth helps > as well. > I never did understand the appeal of gentoo. The idea of spending ALL that time rebuilding from source, yuk. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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