In the interests of saving screen space, I'll note quote allquixotic, but he's right. Some apps will run better when compiled from source, but as a whole there won't be much difference in every day usage.
There are even cases where compiler optimisations can make programs run slower (I won't delve into why as there's plenty of info out there explaining that).
There are only a handful of cases where I noticed compiled-from-source apps working faster (subjective, no numbers applied, just a "feeling" from using it): firefox, chromium, openoffice, and xbmc - and even then, the xbmc was from svn and probably shouldn't be compared and I suspect the difference with the other programs were 32bit binaries running through compatibility libs instead of native 64bit.
I personally just like the way Gentoo does things. I also don't use Gnome or KDE because I don't like either of them - I use E16, or sometimes E17; I'm far more productive with E and enjoy it much more.
This is GNU/Linux, open source, and freedom of choice. You can't benchmark that.
There are even cases where compiler optimisations can make programs run slower (I won't delve into why as there's plenty of info out there explaining that).
There are only a handful of cases where I noticed compiled-from-source apps working faster (subjective, no numbers applied, just a "feeling" from using it): firefox, chromium, openoffice, and xbmc - and even then, the xbmc was from svn and probably shouldn't be compared and I suspect the difference with the other programs were 32bit binaries running through compatibility libs instead of native 64bit.
I personally just like the way Gentoo does things. I also don't use Gnome or KDE because I don't like either of them - I use E16, or sometimes E17; I'm far more productive with E and enjoy it much more.
This is GNU/Linux, open source, and freedom of choice. You can't benchmark that.
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