Re:No. Gentoo is not a performance leader. (Score 2, Interesting)

Once I set out to prove that wrong. My test was purely cpu bound, to see the real benfit from the omptimization. I have since lost my resaults ... but you can do it yourself ... Here is what I did time cat /dev/kcore | gzip -f > /dev/null My resaults showed that whith correct optimization I would gain upto 10% increse in throughput. But, in the real world, the gain would be less.