{"id":5,"date":"2007-12-10T08:47:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T12:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2020-04-27T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T14:49:43","slug":"an-interesting-revelation-further-to-my-confused-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/10\/an-interesting-revelation-further-to-my-confused-post\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting revelation further to my “Confused” post"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came to an interesting epiphany when discussing my little whining session<\/a> regarding the computers being sold at a relatively wild range of prices with my brother (at least, wild given the ranges, from $230 to $700, all fabulous deals to begin with) and apparently being sold principally by the metrics of clock cycles, memory, and price tag. Oh of course the other things are there too, but we all know what’s really important, don’t we? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The realisation was that perhaps I should be using Gentoo linux instead of what I happen to be using, CentOS 4.5. Or really, Gentoo (or any of the other source-based linux distros) instead of any of the others. More about what appears to make Gentoo so special in a moment. Suffice it to say right now that Gentoo is not for the faint of heart, and I have a faint heart. \ud83d\ude42 Gentoo is *very* difficult and complex to set up. And can take days in some cases, even assuming that it all goes well.<\/p>\n

My brother decided to take his AMD 2.8 with plenty of memory and convert a movie to DVD format; possibly under Windows, possibly under CentOS 5.1, he didn’t tell me which. He decided, for the fun of it, to convert the same movie, at the same time, with a dual-core 1.3, I believe under Windows. AMD’s have faster performance per clock cycle than Pentiums, so an AMD 2.8 is purportedly similar in performance to a P4 3.8.<\/p>\n

We were both surprised: The dual core 1.3 won the race.<\/p>\n

Apparently, the video conversion software<\/em><\/strong> was optimized for dual cores on said machine, so between the software, its clock cycles, and all the other metrics (bus speeds, memory, etc.) it was able to beat out the other machine just using brute processing force.<\/p>\n

Gentoo is a linux distro that is distributed as source code which must be compiled at the time of installation, and which figures out what kind of hardware you have, then compiles the source into binary code using settings and tweakings specific to your computer. This way, you see slight to noticeable to (occasionally) fabulous improvements in speed and performance over installing standard binary ISO’s of another distro built from exactly the same sources, on the same machine. In principle, if you were to make a binary ISO of every Gentoo install, no two would be quite identical; nor would the binary ISO from one install on a given machine necessarily give the same performance on a comparable but slightly different machine.<\/p>\n

The word “Gentoo” is the proper name for a type of penguin that happens to be the fastest swimming penguin; the Linux mascot, Tux, is a penguin. Hence the name Gentoo for a Linux distro.<\/p>\n

Hmmm, now I understand the raison d’\u00eatre for Gentoo. And an appreciation for things in general. And, maybe I’m a bit more confused. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And no, I have never tried Gentoo, nor am I likely to in the near future.:) This is neither an endorsement nor critique about Gentoo or any other linux distro; it is an observation further to previous observations that there are many, many, many<\/strong><\/em> metrics by which to compare two or more computers and that software, including the “mere” (yet very involved) compiling of the source code as a function of the hardware, is yet another very important metric in deciding how to purchase a new computer. One which I suspect the mass consumer such as myself is not likely to comprehend — or at least properly evaluate on the street — when pulling out their credit card.preteen lover<\/a>
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I came to an interesting epiphany when discussing my little whining session regarding the computers being sold at a relatively wild range of prices with my brother (at least, wild given the ranges, from $230 to $700, all fabulous deals to begin with) and apparently being sold principally by the metrics of clock cycles, memory, … <\/p>\n

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