Does gentoo give better performance than most distros due to its nature as a source distro?
Not measurably so.
>>53923004
INSTALL GENTOO
>>53923004
Maybe on low end systems, and only if you tweak the flags to properly optimize for the hardware it's on.
If your hardware is old as balls, like 10 years old or older. Or if you're an extremely specialised use case. Then maybe.
No gentoo is a meme, it stands for go to flt and install your linux distro of choice
Only with the proper flags, unless you're on a weird or old architecture. Otherwise, the performance difference is not appreciable without a massive workload.
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>>53923004
Yes, but most likely an insignificant difference depending on the system. The real point of gentoo is to be able to heavily customise the system the way you want it, right down to the kernel.
>>53923004
>tfw your cat won't install gentoo for you
>>53924580
Time for a new cat
Why can't cats be more affectionate?
this is bait
>>53929410
Why?
>>53927141
>he's never owned a cat
No.
The time spent even compiling GCC even once will never be gotten back in the lifetime of the machine. Every other package you install or update adds to the debt you begin to amass in time, power usage and stress on the hardware.
>>53923004
In most cases, not really.
There's two forms of optimization, and the first depends on who maintains the package. The use flag system breaks down each package to remove default features unless the user wants them. If done properly, this can speed some things up by virtue of doing less work or creating a smaller binary which can be loaded more quickly.
The second optimization comes from processor-specific features that you wouldn't normally get unless the package is developed with them in mind, and even then you probably won't get them. High-performance packages like ffmpeg et al will already support conditional optimizations by being compiled with them. On execution they check for features of the processor and use different code paths. Packages which don't support these CPU-specific optimizations by name can benefit through the compiler basically deciding that a specific piece of code can be vectorized and doing it. This almost never happens and almost isn't worth talking about, but people usually mention it as something more relevant than it is.
>>53923004
kitty looked a little anxious.
average 0.000000001%, you won't notice shit.
>>53923004
How adorable! ^^
