On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 04:22:45PM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 10:13 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> > Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > It isn't going to be perfect, but it'll definitely be better than
what
> > > we have now.
> >
> > I'm still not going to use rawhide. There would have to be a kernel
> > without debugging before I would even think of using it for my home or
> > work systems. I have a need for speed. :P
>
> I've honestly never noticed the difference between a debug and a
> non-debug kernel.
>
> I guess I spend too much money on CPUs. Or don't work 'em hard
> enough. :P
I've not noticed it either, and that is with running Rawhide on my two
most-used systems. And I'm not exactly using leading-edge hardware
either.
You both don't use GPUs are lot aren't you? ;)
While working on gnome-shell we noticed a ~30-40% performance drop by
running a debugging kernel compared to a non debug build (on both
intel and radeon).