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  • (Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Tuesday April 29, @09:00AM (1 child)

    by shrewdsheep (5215) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 29, @09:00AM (#1402028)

    I always thought that pre-compiling and flexible re-compiling would allow for the best of both worlds. By this I mean that most packages would never be re-compiled at all; only based on run-time profiling should packages be re-compiled. Re-compiling could be scheduled smoothly, e.g. based on CPU load/memory use. Frankly, I'm a bit disappointed that nobody tried this given they myriad of distros out there.

  • (Score: 2) by ese002 on Wednesday April 30, @04:31AM

    by ese002 (5306) on Wednesday April 30, @04:31AM (#1402172)

    I'm not sure what automatic profiling would do for you. Most updates don't have anything to do with performance and most build options don't either. Build options most enable/disable features and connect to different libraries. Python version changes causes the most or at least the most annoying rebuilds.