Although there certainly may be some advantages to having compiled the source code specifically for your machine, I usually don't imagine a huge performance increase over pre-compiled packages. Obviously, packages are also a lot quicker to install than source code. I usually find this a major motivation. I don't think the majority of users will benefit highly from compiling the software. In some resource-critical situations, however, I can imagine I would be more prone to compile.
If you have two 3.2 GHz processors, you can't run at 6.2 GHz... you can just run two things at the same time at 3.2 GHz. This means dual processors only benefit a single program (such as a game) if it multithreaded. In that case you could probably have some noticable improvements, but not the same as running a single 6.2 GHz processor for sure.
Just for clarification... your second paragraph is slightly confusing. I know you're talking about programming *styles*, not the languages themselves; but, anyway, my clarification: C is not a functional programming langage. It is a sequential programming language. Scheme, LISP, Haskell, etc. can be functional programming languages, although their implementors love to sneak in sequential stuff too. Functional programming languages only have functions. No loop structures. Your programs are just deep calls to functions (very often recursive). Examples I know are Scheme and Haskell. I assume LISP is too. Sequential programming languages can have functions, but they also have loops and are told to execute functions one by one in sequence. Examples of sequential languages are C, C++, BASIC, Java, VB, Perl, PHP,...
We don't even have doctors who make housecalls anymore, but now we have technicials making housecalls? Or maybe it's just a different form of a doctor... not for humans, but for the machines. Next thing you know machines will be buying groceries and talking to eachother... oh, I guess they already do that.
lol. You're planning eruptions, are you? I'd like for Mt. Baker to erupt in the next couple days so it disturbs the way of life and I don't have to write my History paper. Thanks!
The Pacific Science Center would be a great place for this! I remember when I was a little kid I sat inside a _real_ Apollo crew module there... this would be even better!
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Although there certainly may be some advantages to having compiled the source code specifically for your machine, I usually don't imagine a huge performance increase over pre-compiled packages. Obviously, packages are also a lot quicker to install than source code. I usually find this a major motivation. I don't think the majority of users will benefit highly from compiling the software. In some resource-critical situations, however, I can imagine I would be more prone to compile.
If you have two 3.2 GHz processors, you can't run at 6.2 GHz... you can just run two things at the same time at 3.2 GHz. This means dual processors only benefit a single program (such as a game) if it multithreaded. In that case you could probably have some noticable improvements, but not the same as running a single 6.2 GHz processor for sure.
Just for clarification... your second paragraph is slightly confusing. I know you're talking about programming *styles*, not the languages themselves; but, anyway, my clarification: ...
C is not a functional programming langage. It is a sequential programming language. Scheme, LISP, Haskell, etc. can be functional programming languages, although their implementors love to sneak in sequential stuff too.
Functional programming languages only have functions. No loop structures. Your programs are just deep calls to functions (very often recursive). Examples I know are Scheme and Haskell. I assume LISP is too.
Sequential programming languages can have functions, but they also have loops and are told to execute functions one by one in sequence. Examples of sequential languages are C, C++, BASIC, Java, VB, Perl, PHP,
Apparently the BBC is very slow about getting news out. I saw this info several days ago already.
We don't even have doctors who make housecalls anymore, but now we have technicials making housecalls? Or maybe it's just a different form of a doctor... not for humans, but for the machines. Next thing you know machines will be buying groceries and talking to eachother... oh, I guess they already do that.
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I make fun of myself and get marked down for it. pfft!
lol. You're planning eruptions, are you? I'd like for Mt. Baker to erupt in the next couple days so it disturbs the way of life and I don't have to write my History paper. Thanks!
I hadn't heard about this, but I think it'd be cool if it blew up. Americans like things blowing up, right? Hmm...
go army! (pun intended)
The Pacific Science Center would be a great place for this! I remember when I was a little kid I sat inside a _real_ Apollo crew module there... this would be even better!
I downloaded fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.7.0.i386.rpm over 2 weeks ago. Why do you post old news?