Speed of Clear Linux

Posted Jul 19, 2025 18:12 UTC (Sat) by rossburton (subscriber, #7254)
In reply to: Speed of Clear Linux by epa
Parent article: The end of Clear Linux

The reason Clear won in phoronix benchmarks is partly down to it exporting CFLAGS=-O3 in the default environment. No other distribution does that, and phoronix doesn’t reset the environment.