[wplug] Building vs. RPMs?

[Bill Moran]

Eric Cooper wrote:

> Arch-specific optimization is the whole premise behind Gentoo, for
> example, but I don't think it's been supported very scientifically.
> You'll find lots of subjective statements like "my system is much
> faster" (for some value of "much").  There's probably an 80/20 rule at
> work here, where tuning a few key packages gives you most of the
> benefit.

http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/source.php

It's not a _lot_ of science, but it's all I've got ;)