From funroll-loops.org…
“If Debian people think compiling sucks, well so what? I guess they’re satisfied with Someone Else’s Binaries. I prefer to play on Gentoo’s strengths. I get exactly what I want compiled in — nothing less, nothing more, and with the optimizations I want.”
And the mantra so oft-repeated in #757. “FreeBSD is perfect.” “Source distribution is more efficient.”
See what happens when you complete a buildworld and buildkernel, then install them. On a machine with bad ram. I’m dealing from experience right now. It ain’t a pretty picture.
Give me md5sum’d binaries compiled on good hardware any day. Seriously.
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