Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 09, 2005 11:42 PM
Not necessarily. Gentoo likely has SSP and ProPolice turned on at the C compiler level, meaning just about all the OS is compiled with plenty of paranoia. And, since he did not mention what compiler codes he used, it was probably just a generic setup. That means, low optimization (essentially, -O2 IIRC).
A well optimized Gentoo setup with the latest C compiler, NPTL threading throughout (read: Linux 2.6 specific) and the paranoia opted out would probably perform considerably better than the benchmarks the author had, especially if he took the time to rebuild the toolchain a few times just to be sure that it was as good as it gets. I know it's just a guess, but I feel pretty confident about it.
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Re:Gentoo unfair advantage
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 09, 2005 11:42 PMA well optimized Gentoo setup with the latest C compiler, NPTL threading throughout (read: Linux 2.6 specific) and the paranoia opted out would probably perform considerably better than the benchmarks the author had, especially if he took the time to rebuild the toolchain a few times just to be sure that it was as good as it gets. I know it's just a guess, but I feel pretty confident about it.
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