Yes, it's hard to justify any performance gain without proper programs, tools 
etc.  But at least for this laptop, kdemediaplayer do run with much less 
hiccup when opening programs as opposed to short interrupts in sound when 
opeing files under kernel with "-g".  But, again this is no scientific, 
systematic performance test but claiming based on what I used to hear and now 
hearing from kdemedia player.  Anyways, thanks for the input.

P.S. I'm embarrassed to just note that I've also disabled "USER_LDT", 
"UCONSOLE" and "INET6" from the kernel configuration prior to recompilation.  
But, I doubt omitting these options has anything to do with less hiccup in 
kdemedia player, no?


Yours sincerely,
Sung N. Cho,
Monday, Jan. 28, 2002.




On Monday 28 January 2002 08:53 pm, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Sung N. Cho writes:
> >That's what I thought at first too.  But, someone told me that turning
> > "-g" option supresses any optimizations during compilation.  So, in fact,
> > by
>
> That's the case with some compilers but not with gcc (as is explicitly
> stated in the manpage).  I also doubt that even when the kernel is
> compiled without any optimizations that you would notice such gross
> performance degradations.
>
>   --mkb