[mythtv] architecture, compilation and performance

Matt Zimmerman mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Sun Jan 12 21:20:58 EST 2003


On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 02:16:48PM -0700, Bryce C wrote:

> As a Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org) user, I must say yes, I have seen a
> significant increase in performance between my Gentoo and Mandrake 8.2
> boxes which are almost identical except the Gentoo box is set up for
> MythTV.  I can't say anything specific about MythTV but overall, there is
> an improvement.  Also, Gentoo's using gcc3.2 which has Athlon-XP as an
> option.

When you say "almost identical", do you mean that you are using exactly the
same hardware, and exactly the same source code for every package, the only
difference being the compiler and compiler flags?

If not, this is not much of a comparison.

-- 
 - mdz



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