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For one thing you can, in theory, optimise for the CPU you have instead of some generic target that has to run acceptably everywhere.

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Sure, but again, you could in theory distribute said builds and stop wasting compute compiling yourself. I know nixpkgs, for example, builds with very generic targets and not super aggressive compiler flags, but at least the machinery exists to do this.

> Sure, but again, you could in theory distribute said builds and stop wasting compute compiling yourself.

Here are three links that you will find informative. [0][1][2]

While I'm not using the official Gentoo binhost, I've had one running on my LAN for my own personal use for roughly a decade now. It has been possible to set up a binhost for quite a bit longer than that... that's just when I got multiple machines with the same CPU in them, so it made sense for me to set one up.

[0] <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide>

[1] <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Bas...>

[2] <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Binary_Host_Quickstart>

And even before binhosts you could have a shared buildhost with ccache.

Was ccache support much older than binhosts? It has been so very long since the introduction of both that my memory of the history has been thoroughly erased.

Not sure, perhaps I was only aware of ccache before binhosts.

On my 10 computers for example? :-) Gentoo wasn't aimed at people with such luxuries.

I'm not a Gentoo user BTW but I do think building from source is attractive for the same reasons cargo (Isn't that build from source mostly?) and go do it.

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