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ziml77last Friday at 7:48 PM1 replyview on HN

But their differentiation is that to improve performance they compile all the packages with newer instruction sets as the target as well as enabling more optimizations like LTO. And some are even optimized with PGO.


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johnisgoodlast Friday at 8:11 PM

I find it odd to call a specific Linux distribution blazingly fast.

Gentoo with make.conf (/etc/portage/make.conf[1]) having "CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native -flto"" means that Gentoo, a Linux distribution, is performant?

[1] It is not a good idea to build everything with LTO or PGO enabled because not all packages support LTO / PGO cleanly. Do it on the basis of per-package.

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