Optimizing KDE 3.1.x

David Lechnyr writes "This article goes into detail on optimizing KDE for speed. Typically, most distributions include pre-compiled binaries of KDE which are optimized for an Intel i386 computer. Chances are that you're running something faster than this; if so, this should help you tweak the compile process to speed things up a bit."

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prelink

[dotgod]

Using prelink will also provide additional optimization.

I do this with ALL my software, automatically.

[ewomack]

See http://www.sourcemage.org/ All source, downloaded from the authors site and compiled to the settings and optimizations YOU choose.

Re:portage ?

[dh003i]

Experimental? Come on. Maybe -O3 and then a series of other additional optimizations beyond that are experimental. But the sane optimizations most people use are not experimental. I, myself, default to:

-march=athlon-tbird -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer

Btw, compiling everything from scratch is hardly "unstable". That's what FreeBSD does. Furthermore, memory optimizations often-times increase system-stability, by reducing the likelihood of situations where there isn't enough RAM. Furthermore, some of the USE settings increase stability by eliminating compiled-in support for crap that you don't use. If you don't use something, and support for it is compiled in, it's just useless crap that has the potential to reduce stability.