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skale

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From: Atlanta, GA

Registered: 2006-08-04

Posts: 146

optimizing packages and speed

Searching the forums ( and Google), there are a lot of varied opinions on just how much optimizations speed up the application, and for all the contention, no hard numbers.  So here's what I propose.  I will use my junk-box (P3 600MHz 128MB Dell) and the `time` command to get some real numbers, and enter them into a wiki page.  YOu all can put in your own times as well, if you like.  I don't really care if you care, I think it is important. (and I am holed up in my room sick for the next few days, and need something to do) .  I'll start with firefox.  2.0 is a whale.
Edit:
Dell 128MB RAM Pentium III 600MHz
Firefox:
I timed from typing it into the terminal to the window opening.  I set the homepage to about:blank so the speed of the connection would not alter the results. The optimizations were march=penium3 -O3 pipe for both C and C++
Binary: 12s, 7s, 8s
Source: 7,5,4

Abiword: No huge difference here.
Binary: 4,2,2
Source: 3,2,2