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Gentoo linux is essentially made specifically for people like this, to be able to optimize one’s own linux rig for one’s specific usecase. After initial setup, it’s pretty simple and easy to use, I remember making a ton of friends at matrix’s Gentoo Linux channel, was fun times. https://www.gentoo.org/ Fun fact, initial ChromeOS was basically just custom Gentoo Linux install, I’m not sure if they still use Gentoo Lin…
No GCC march=native?
Note that if you do this then you will opt out of any security updates not just for jq but also for its regular expression parsing dependency onigurama. For example, there was a security update for onigurama previously; if this sort of thing happens again, you'd be vulnerable, and jq is often used to parse untrusted JSON. > * SECURITY UPDATE: Fix multiple invalid pointer dereference, out-of-bounds write memory corrup…
I'm curious how applicable these are, in general? Feels like pointing out that using interior doors in your house misses out on the security afforded from a vault door. Not wrong, but there is also a reason every door in a bank is not a vault door. That is, I don't want to devalue the CVE system; but it is also undeniable that there are major differences in impact between findings?
You could, though. It's 99.9% stuff like this!
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If it wasn't for performance, what was gained in using it over something like Slackware and building only the packages you needed to?
USE flags. You can build packages with specific features enabled or disabled, which can further reduce your dependency tree.
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Waste minutes of your time just so anonymous people on the internet can read your comment :). Not everything in life is an optimization problem. Fun little projects like this is what makes us human (and, arguably, are both educational and entertaining).
If we're talking about micro-seconds of difference, the trade-off doesn't seem worth it. Even on a mass scale where this is somehow adopted, nobody is going to notice the difference. Maybe if this were in something like eCommerce and web browing where the lag translates to profit lost? Or perhaps game engines?
IDK, I just consider humans time more precious than a slow package (that already runs blazingly fast on a CPU that it barely matters.)
Note that if you do this then you will opt out of any security updates not just for jq but also for its regular expression parsing dependency onigurama. For example, there was a security update for onigurama previously; if this sort of thing happens again, you'd be vulnerable, and jq is often used to parse untrusted JSON. > * SECURITY UPDATE: Fix multiple invalid pointer dereference, out-of-bounds write memory corrup…
But isn't there still the kernel of an idea here for a package management system that intelligently decides to build based on platform? Seems like a lot of performance to leave on the table.
Also I think in earlier days the argument to build was so you can optimize the application for the specific capabilities of your system like the supported SIMD instruction set or similar. I think nowadays that is much less of a factor. Instead it would probably be better to do things like that on a package or distribution level (i.e. have one binary distribution package prebuilt by the distribution for different CPU capabilities).
Gentoo linux is essentially made specifically for people like this, to be able to optimize one’s own linux rig for one’s specific usecase. After initial setup, it’s pretty simple and easy to use, I remember making a ton of friends at matrix’s Gentoo Linux channel, was fun times. https://www.gentoo.org/ Fun fact, initial ChromeOS was basically just custom Gentoo Linux install, I’m not sure if they still use Gentoo Lin…
Never seen the HN version of the 'install gentoo' meme before, more sophisticated definitely. > The goal of Gentoo is to have an operating system that builds all programs from source, instead of having pre-built binary packages. While this does allow for advanced speed and customizability, it means that even the most basic components such as the kernel must be compiled from source. It is known through out the Linux c…
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Does ${corporate} prevent you from merging your jsons to a single file with a decent format like parquet?
they don't but that defeats the purpose. i want to be able to inspect the insides, so binary formats are out, i have to easily open & read the content
Gentoo linux is essentially made specifically for people like this, to be able to optimize one’s own linux rig for one’s specific usecase. After initial setup, it’s pretty simple and easy to use, I remember making a ton of friends at matrix’s Gentoo Linux channel, was fun times. https://www.gentoo.org/ Fun fact, initial ChromeOS was basically just custom Gentoo Linux install, I’m not sure if they still use Gentoo Lin…