Can recompiling your kernel lead to speed improvements

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> I found that recompiling for the specific CPU made a big difference on
> my old Compaq Presario.
>
> This box originally had a K6-2 350 mHz; recompiling shaved a few seconds
> off boot and KDE start up.
> When I upbrained the box to K6-III+ 450 mHz (clocked to 500 mHz) the
> performance difference was really noteworthy.
> I've done some timings and the K6-III+ box equals or exceeds a Celeron
> 850 box.  Both systems run Libranet 2.8.1 and 3.0 Debian.  (The 850
> Celeron box has a recompiled kernel too.)  Libranet's admin tool for
> kernel recompilation makes recompiling a kernel easy.

So that's like comparing a snail to a tortoise?  ;)

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