The value of recompiling system libs for a specific cpu???

[Steven Elling]

On Sunday 06 October 2002 15:19, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> Anyone have input on the value of recompiling the system libs?  The
> kernel is already custom and built for the athlon.. what about the
> system libs?
>
> Running debian woody on an Athlon 600
>
> TIA

One advantage to recompiling all libs is that you can disable the build of 
static libraries and enable the build of shared libraries.  Why?  Less space 
to be taken up on your drive in most cases.  Some builds enable both static 
and shared libs by default and other libs that depend on one of these libs 
may default to using the static lib over the shared version.  Also, if you 
don't already know, static libs get linked in at compile time not run time, 
therefore, you end up with two copies of the lib and twice the amount of 
drive space used.