And the gap between Arch and Gentoo shrinks a little more…
Everyone who has used Arch knows that packages built from scratch use custom CFLAGS specified in /etc/makepkg.conf (or they do if they installed them with pacman/makepkg). This gives a great level of optimization control to you if you desire it, the default CFLAGS are generic i686 optimized, but the Arch wiki has a very good [...]
Filed in Linux, under Arch, Compile, Gentoo, Linux, Optimize, Pacman on May 22, 2008
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