Gentoo vs. Ubuntu performance comparison

Doesn't mplayer enable some asm routines based on runtime CPU detection?

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Originally Posted by yotambien

What bloat do you refer to that it would affect the numbers like that? It's not that Ubuntu runs random crappy applications for the sake of it--or that's what I hope.

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Things like some debugging enabled (I have fully upgraded rc version to stable and there are still debugging options turned on - cat /boot/config-2.6.31-14-generic |grep DEBUG |grep =), perfcounters and maybe some other, similar features which can affect performance. I'm not saying having such options enabled is bad.

Why the hell I saw that benchmarks after 2 months??? :mad: