Subj : TERMinator
To   : Nightfox
From : Accession
Date : Sun Mar 29 2026 08:40 am

Hey Nightfox!

On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:44:24 -0700, you wrote:

 > Years ago I had tried Gentoo (and I recall Nick said he's used
 > Gentoo as well), but after a short while I didn't want to wait for it to
 > build all the software packages from code when it installed.  I think
 > there was a noticeable performance advantage doing that, but it was a
 > fairly small advtangage, and IMO not raelly worth waiting so long for
 > packages to build.

I'm in complete agreement here. Except the only performance advantages of compiling everything from source is if you actually went out of your way to specify optimizations specific to your system. By setting your "CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS" keywords and "USE" flags, you could leave out a lot of bloat you don't need, which may have ended up with smaller binaries and better performance.

I never really noticed any of that, though.. because I was always too busy !@(#*& compiling. While I enjoyed it for awhile, and it taught me a lot when first starting out with Linux, it got old. :D 

Regards,
Nick

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