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   From: realnc@arcor.de   
      
   ben.kevan@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Apr 5, 8:46 am, Nikos Chantziaras  wrote:   
   >> Everything is done.  I have a fully working KDE desktop, and the whole   
   >> system was compiled with GCC 4.3.0, CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2   
   >> -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" and LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed".   
   >>   
   >> One thing didn't compile though: kde-base/arts (an "undefined   
   >> identifier" error, due to a missing #include).  So I had to do   
   >> USE="-arts" for now.   
   >>   
   >> End-result: it's *damn* fast.  Well, at least compared to openSUSE 10.3.   
   >>   No, it's not 5% faster.  Everything seems more like 100% faster.   
   >> Well, perhaps openSUSE is "bloated", not sure.  But anyway, I must say   
   >> I'm more than just impressed.  "startx" fires up KDE almost in an   
   >> instant.  Every application starts immediately.  This is insane :D   
   >>   
   >> PS:   
   >> It took me 2 days to get there though :P   
   >   
   > Damn, sounds great.   
   >   
   > Can you give a little more of a rundown of how it was done. What   
   > version of GCC were you running (meaning compiled from source or from   
   > a opensuse repo)..   
   > I may have to try this on a test machine before I do it on my   
   > production machine, but man.. sounds good.   
      
   Uhm, the above is on a Gentoo box.  I mentioned openSUSE because that's   
   my main system, and now it seems slow compared to Gentoo.   
      
   I never compiled openSUSE from source; that's just too hairy to do.   
      
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