I'll tell you that , coming from three years of different precompiled distros(redhat,mandrake, debian,slack), all with the last recompiled kernel, six month ago I tried to install gentoo: when I first started my new distro I found a "visible" general improvement, in every task I did, and also in startup procedure. This is why, from now on, I'm not going to change my distro anymore, I'm just too happy with gentoo...
It's up to you to choose which level of optimization to use(and how agressive you want it to be), but, definitely, if you use the flags in the gentoo documentation, you'll be reasonably sure to have a package to be compiled correctly and to run fast!!!
Before going bed, you've just to run "emerge kde", and when you'll get up the next day you'll have your new kde release installed and, above all, optimized for your system...
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I'll tell you that , coming from three years of different precompiled distros(redhat,mandrake, debian,slack), all with the last recompiled kernel, six month ago I tried to install gentoo: when I first started my new distro I found a "visible" general improvement, in every task I did, and also in startup procedure. This is why, from now on, I'm not going to change my distro anymore, I'm just too happy with gentoo...
It's up to you to choose which level of optimization to use(and how agressive you want it to be), but, definitely, if you use the flags in the gentoo documentation, you'll be reasonably sure to have a package to be compiled correctly and to run fast!!!
Before going bed, you've just to run "emerge kde", and when you'll get up the next day you'll have your new kde release installed and, above all, optimized for your system...