Re: Would a locally compiled kernel be faster?

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:20:32 -0600, Ignoramus8691 wrote:

If I compile a kernel for my own CPU, would it optimize the resulting
binary executable code better than a kernel that comes with a distro?
How much of an improvement could I expect?

i

I'm certainly not an expert on such issues, but I think it could. Whether
there would be a significant difference would be problematic. You would
need to specify machine specific optimizations for your specific CPU. As
I understand, this is one of the strong points of Gentoo - if you know
what optimizations to make, everything is compiled from source and
tailored to your CPU. Knowing what settings to make is the kicker.
.

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