On 20/05/10 03:18, Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Dan McGee<dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Aaron Griffin<aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
Came across my reader today http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_arch_faster&num=1
Pretty neat.
Showing boot-up time and other more noticeable waits would be a much better comparison; I think the benchmarks are not why people think Arch feels faster.
Right but the reason I think this is interesting is that the data shows it is "feels faster" not "is faster".
This is not surprising at all. Especially once I saw it wasn the x86_64 ports that were being compared. With x86_64 we are not optimizing any more than any other x86_64 distribution. In fact, our CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are quite conservative so we may be optimizing less. Even our "i686" optimization is not news-worthy these days. Fedora is i686 optimized. Although I think Ubunutu is still i486 (glibc killed off i386 support). So there may have been a difference on the 32 bit install. Optimization is not a selling point for Arch anymore. Allan