Thanks for taking the time to tell us what sort of evidence supports your recommendations.
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Thanks for taking the time to tell us what sort of evidence supports your recommendations.
Thanks for the references. I don't have any questions about 1. or 4., but I have some doubt about 2. and 3. For 2., I just don't see any reason to think that disabling an unused service will have a...
What reasons are there to think that the changes you recommend improve the operation of a Linux system? What tests have you performed, and how did they come out?
I did look. I learn that "-march=native" was introduced in gcc 4.2. I have only gcc 4.1.2 here, so it's no good to me personally, until I update. Still, very interesting....
How do you think gcc knows that, or even knows what cpu I have? If I had compiled gcc and tailored it to my own system, then it would know whatever I told it about that, and if I told it correctly,...
Yes, that's my understanding, also. So, one may as well use "-O4".
I use those compiler flags not because I think they're good, but because mplayer thinks they're good. That is, when I...
Generally, you should clean up before doing the pull, because the pull might change the configuration in a way that confuses make and prevents it from doing the distclean correctly.
cd ~/x264...
If you have an AMD 64-bit system, here is something I just stumbled on that might be useful. In compiling x264, the linker told me I should use "-fPIC" and recompile common/x86/cabac-a.o. But that...