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From: viren@cc.gatech.edu (Viren R. Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD slower than Linux ?
Date: 5 Feb 1997 15:18:40 -0500
Organization: Klique of the Incorrigible Stupified Snarks
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In <5d85t9$ipd@helena.MT.net> nate@see.my.signature (Nate Williams) writes:
>I suspect there are more users who are concerned about having everything
>work right all the time out of the box than who are concerned about
>having it go as fast as possible on the high-end hardware.
>I *always* recompile the math libraries on my boxes, and on high-end
>hardware that has built in FPU is a 10 minute process (or 30 seconds
>on a high-end PPro box. :)
Hmm..maybe we could make it more obvious/easier to get the math libraries:
1. Put it in the install docs.
2. Make a package of some sort?
I don't think it's all that obvious that the libraries need to be recompiled
if you have a FPU, and I wonder how many FreeBSD users know about it, and
how many actually do it.
>Nate
Viren
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