[H-GEN] Sorcery

[Robert Brockway]

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On 4 Mar 2002, Jason Henry Parker wrote:

> Every now and again some wacko comes along and demands that Debian
> recompile binaries so they're optimised for P3s or something.
>
> Whenever anyone bothers to actually run the numbers, the performance
> increase is pretty dismal.

I know the improvement is of the order ot 2-3% which isn't much really,
but there is still someing appealing about the recompile all option :)
Rob

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